Re: Ignoring the whitespace in text nodes

[david_marston]

First, look at the whitespace stripping options in section 3.4 of the XSLT 
spec. If that doesn't get what you want, you can apply a predicate to 
deselect some nodes when you count them. Perhaps
count(blah/node()[normalize-space()!=' '])
will obtain what you want.
.................David Marston