RE: Storing a reference to a node

[DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

 Kuijk van, David 

>I am new to XSLT, and I was wondering whether it is possible to store a
>reference to a paticular node. This can be useful if one would want to
>postpone generating output for a particular node after nodes 
>further down
>the tree have been processed. 

At the point at which you want to add something to the output,
use the strength of XPATH to 'find' the previous bit you wanted.

E.g. if the bit you want to ignore (in document order) is <save-for-later>
and the point at which you want to output it is <now>


<xsl:template match="now">

   <tag><xsl:value-of select ="../../../../save-for-later"/>

This assumes a structure of

<save-for-later>
   <tag1>
     <tag2>
       <tag3>
          <tag4>
             <now>

Vary the path to get to the right node further up the tree.

HTH DaveP


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