RE: [xsl] Reusing XPath statements (defining once and only once)

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >The stylesheet works, but the XPath expressions bother me. I 
> would like 
> >to declare this XPath once:
> >
> >@* | * | comment() | processing-instruction() | text()
> >
> >and refer to it elsewhere. I tried to make it a variable, but it 
> >doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Nope, it's not going to. Variables are bound to values, not 
> to expressions 
> that can be evaluated.

In XSLT 2.0, of course, you can define this as a function:

<xsl:function name="my:sprogs">
  <xsl:param name="here" as="node"/>
  <xsl:result select="$here/node() | $here/@*"/>
</xsl:function>

Michael Kay
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