---
title: count
slug: Web/XPath/Functions/count
tags:
  - XSLT
  - XSLT_Reference
---
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The `count` function counts the number of nodes in a node-set and returns an integer.

### Syntax

```
count( node-set )
```

### Arguments

- `node-set`
  - : The node set to be counted.

### Returns

An integer representing the number of nodes in a node-set.

### Defined

[XPath 1.0 4.1](https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-count)

### Gecko support

Supported.
