Re: [xsl] Suggestions for naming files based on starting node?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Suggestions for naming files based on starting node?
From: Chris von See <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:04:20 -0700
I incorporated <xsl:number> into a pre-process template that created new identifier attributes for each element, and it worked like a champ. Still a fair bit of overhead because of the pre-processing pass, but much less than using count(preceding::*). Thanks, David!

Chris

On Apr 16, 2008, at 2:08 PM, David Carlisle wrote:


This works quite well, but as you'd expect the overhead is
ridiculous.

<xsl:number/> is designed for doing this kind of counting and many sytems optimise its use, caching the last calculated number and not requiring a document traversal each time.

I always avoid using generate-id for any kind of filename of ID used for
linking, the values can be highly unstable as documents are regenerated.


David

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