File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Employees>
<Person>
this is a test
</Person>
</Employees>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h3>String handling</h3>
<xsl:variable name="sentence" select="'this is a test'" />
The sentence: '
<xsl:value-of select="$sentence" />
' has
<xsl:value-of
select="count(tokenize($sentence, '\s+'))" />
words.
<br />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<body>
<h3>String handling</h3>
The sentence: '
this is a test
' has
4
words.
<br></body>
</html>