Re: [xsl] Error when params are in Xpath expression

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dmitry,

At 01:23 PM 5/12/2009, you wrote:
> I think you forgot to provide the correct example of how I would use
> the path, you said:
> > In this case you could have
> >
> > document('')/*/trans:tr/tr_string[@str=$str]/*[@lang=$toLang]"

Actually, I think now you have

document('')/*/trans:tr/tr_string[@str=$str]/*[name()=$toLang]"

Note the slight alteration in the predicate in the last step.

> Then there is a question of which format would be faster for Xpath to
> test to see if string exists in a desired language?

Beats me. I think examining the @lang attribute might be a tiny bit 
faster than using the name() function. I doubt the difference would 
be noticeable unless documents got very large.

I also think that the test using @lang is a bit more robust, however, 
in the face of possible browser bugs etc. But indexing using a key 
would also give you a potential performance boost too; and in that 
case a performance difference would probably disappear.

Cheers,
Wendell


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