[Nant-users] Counting nodes using

[Nau, Michael]

Title: Counting nodes using <xmlpeek>

Is there a way to count xml nodes using the <xmlpeek> task. I'd like to dynamically count the number of <project> entries in the following xml file:

<projectgroup>
  <project name="foo"/>
  <project name="bar"/>
  <project name="foobar"/>
</projectgroup>

Is there a way I can do this with the <xmlpeek> task? I tried the following, but nant errors as "The _expression_ passed to this method should result in a NodeSet"

<xmlpeek 
  failonerror="true"
  property="references.count"
  file="${project.projectfile}"
  xpath="count(projectgroup/project)"
  verbose="false"
/>

Thanks,
Mike.