Re: [xsl] Same name Elements in more than one node

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

At 12:49 PM 12/26/01, you wrote:
> The problem is
> that I want to get the ENCODINGANALOG attribute for each PERSNAME
> element I output.

That's natural.

>  Since I cannot figure out how to write for the
> current node PERSNAME for an instance of two PERSNAME elements,
>
> <xsl:value-of select="./PESNAME[2]"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="./@ENCODINGANALOG[2]"/>

That's what templates are for!

> then I decided to write two for-each statements, one inside another,
> to take care of it. It is clumsy and awkward and very very
> frustrating, but it works....

Ugh! you'll find the "solution" scales poorly and is very brittle.

Is there any reason *not* to use templates?

Cheers,
Wendell


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