Re: [xsl] RE: failure notice

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you don't want to split up the template and just want to surround
small sections with a test for some of those 25 elements then you can do
things like
<xsl:if test="self::X"  to check if you are on an X element
But this is really doing the test again rather than what you asked

> > Is there a way of determining the value of what was actually
> > matched? 

which is accessing some stored data about an earlier test.

Having more templates is probably more efficient than having a long list
of xsl:if or xsl:when tests as a system (probably) uses some kind of
hash table lookup to find matching templates but a long list of xsl:when
tests (probably) is searched in linear order so has expected tme
proportional to the length of the list of tests.

David

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