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<div class="refnamediv"><h2>dot.count</h2><p>
dot.count
 &#8212; Returns the number of <span class="quote">&#8220;<span class="quote">.</span>&#8221;</span> characters in a string
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<div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a name="id36257989"></a><h2>Description</h2>

  <p>Given a string, the <code class="function">dot.count</code>
    template returns the number of dot/period characters in the
    string. This template is useful, for example, when testing the
    nesting level of nested inline markup (for nested emphasis,
    quotations, etc.).</p>

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&lt;xsl:template name="dot.count"&gt;
  &lt;!-- Returns the number of "." characters in a string --&gt;
  &lt;xsl:param name="string"&gt;&lt;/xsl:param&gt;
  &lt;xsl:param name="count" select="0"&gt;&lt;/xsl:param&gt;
  &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
    &lt;xsl:when test="contains($string, '.')"&gt;
      &lt;xsl:call-template name="dot.count"&gt;
        &lt;xsl:with-param name="string" select="substring-after($string, '.')"&gt;&lt;/xsl:with-param&gt;
        &lt;xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count+1"&gt;&lt;/xsl:with-param&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:call-template&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:when&gt;
    &lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
      &lt;xsl:value-of select="$count"&gt;&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
  &lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
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