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If the argument is omitted, it defaults to the context node converted to a string, in other words the string-value of the context node. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Parameters</div> <div class="refsect2"> <span class="refsect2title">strg – </span> The string whose length must be measured.</div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Return Types</div> <p>Integer</p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Examples</div> <a name="xpf_ex_string_length" /> <div class="example"> <div class="exampletitle" /> <p>The following expressions returns 5.</p> <div> <pre class="screen">string-length('ABCDE')</pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">See Also</div> <p> <a href="xpf_string.html">xpf_string()</a> </p> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div>Copyright© 1999 - 2009 OpenLink Software All rights reserved.</div> <div id="validation"> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"> <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /> </a> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"> <img src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" height="31" width="88" /> </a> </div> </div> </body> </html>