Re: [xsl] alternative to repeatedly walking the ancestor axis in 1.0

Subject: Re: [xsl] alternative to repeatedly walking the ancestor axis in 1.0
From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:39:18 +0100
>> which leaves walking the ancestor axis most of the time
>
> yes ancestor-or-self::*[@dir][1]/@dir which probably isn't too expensive
> if the xml tree isn't too deep.
>
> Or of course you can arrange that the attribute in the source is called
> xml:lang and use the lang() function.

ahh great - thanks David.


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