The pipeline
<p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" version="3.0">
<p:output port="result"/>
<p:text-head count="-9" name="head">
<p:with-input>
<p:inline content-type="text/plain">This
is
just
some
arbitrary
text
with
nine
lines.</p:inline>
</p:with-input>
</p:text-head>
<p:text-count name="counter"/>
<p:wrap-sequence wrapper="text">
<p:with-input pipe="@head"/>
</p:wrap-sequence>
<p:add-attribute attribute-name="counter">
<p:with-option name="attribute-value" select="/*:result/text()" pipe="@counter"/>
</p:add-attribute>
</p:declare-step>
Schematron validation
<s:schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:s="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" queryBinding="xslt2">
<s:pattern>
<s:rule context="/">
<s:assert test="text">Root element is not 'text'.</s:assert>
<s:assert test="text/@counter='0'">Attribute 'counter' is not '0'.</s:assert>
<s:assert test="count(text/text())=0">There should be no text here.</s:assert>
</s:rule>
</s:pattern>
</s:schema>
