[xsl] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: XPath riddle

Subject: [xsl] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: XPath riddle
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:19:15 +0100
Hi Dimitre,

At 05:24 PM 7/5/01, you wrote:
Yes, this only will not work in the more general case when the ancestor element
names to check for are generated "on the fly" from a schema.


Then only the second expression I gave will work:

//D/C[name(ancestor::*[contains($listOfDefiningEls, concat(' ', name()))][1])='A']

Acknowledged. To be generated from the schema, the "cleaner" XPaths would have to be done in two passes (one to generate, one to apply them), whereas yours could be done in one.


Also note, that an optimizing XPath processor will stop at the first occurence of
the above expression, while if last() is used, it will have to produce all the
nodes.

Again, something it is often worth keeping in mind (though lists of ancestors usually won't be *so* long...).


Thanks,
Wendell


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