Re: AW: [xsl] Special processing for the first process of an element

[Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Hickman wrote:

>    <xsl:template match="result">
>        <xsl:choose>
>            <xsl:when test="preceding::result">
>                <result class="rest"><xsl:apply-templates 
> select="*|text()" /></result>
>            </xsl:when>
>            <xsl:otherwise>
>                <result class="first"><xsl:apply-templates 
> select="*|text()" /></result>
>            </xsl:otherwise>
>        </xsl:choose>
>    </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

If using the preceding axis is getting slow on large XML documents, you could switch to keys.

(top-level)
<xsl:key name="results" match="result" use="'all'" />

(result template)
<xsl:when test="generate-id(.) = generate-id(key('results', 'all')[1])">
   ... first ...
</xsl:when>

Cheers,
Geert