RE: [xsl] Combining consecutive siblings

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Correct, you don't need that line if the template matching 
> the parent element has called apply-templates.  You would 
> need that line if the parent called apply-templates on the 
> first element only, and then each template would call 
> apply-templates on the appropriate following-sibling.  Its 
> just two different ways of walking the tree.


If you're concerned about performance, then doing an <apply-templates
select="*[1]"> is likely to be more efficient than doing <apply-templates
select="*"> and supplying a "null" template that matches all children except
the first. (At any rate, it's easier to optimize!)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/