Re: [xsl] XSLT Hello World - outreach

[David Rudel <fwqhgads@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Brian Chrisman <brchrisman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Okay... is it me, or is this one of those exceedingly rare cases where
> you actually want the 'A!=B' test instead of 'not(A=B)'?
> ie, test="*[1]/@audience!=*/@audience" would tell us when something in
> this case is 'not' to be promoted?
>
> - Brian
>

Oops... I just realized that, from a performance standpoint, your
solution is likely to be faster because when checking $seq1 != $seq2,
the processor is likely to stop after it finds the first
non-homogeneous term. It may do the same when checking
count(distinct-values(@audience))=1 as well, but perhaps less likely.

More importantly, I wanted to introduce you to the distinct-values()
function in case you were unaware of its application in this context.

-David

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