Subject: Re: Matching elements with a name specified by an attribute value From: "Benoit Cerrina" <benoit.cerrina@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:06:37 -0400 (EST) |
Hi, Mike, how is this bad document design? For one thing do you expect to have a say on the design of all the document types you are writing stylesheets for. For another I've got a similar case in a real world example where the id of the instance is actually only unique among all instances of a type (think of database tables with unique indices, each table is a type the id is guaranteed to be unique within a table). Benoit > > Is it possible to match on elements where the names of the > > elements to look > You can do //*[name()=@data-element] > > But this is not a nice document design. Element tags are intended for > identifying types, not instances. To identify instances, you should use an > id attribute: <item id="item1"> > > Mike Kay > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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