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Returns the number of characters in the string.
number string-length(string)
If the argument is omitted, it returns the number of characters in the string-value of the context node.
The following function call returns 4:
string-length("abcd")
The following function call returns 5:
string-length("ab cd")
If an argument is not of type string, it is first converted to a string and then evaluated.
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