Re: [xsl] Avoiding multiple "apply-templates" by creating one variable for the clauses. Is it possible?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Avoiding multiple "apply-templates" by creating one variable for the clauses. Is it possible?
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:01:30 +0200
Kate Busch-Petersen wrote:
Thanks Andrew, that looks exactly like what I'm looking for, but I get a big ole error:

Expected token ')', found ','.
//blog[author_id = ($AuthorId -->,<--  author_id)[1]][category_id = ($...

Any ideas?

Is that an XSLT 1.0 processor giving that error?


I'm not sure what ($AuthorId, author_id) is meant to do?

In XSLT 2.0 it is simply a sequence consisting of $AuthorId and author_id. The trailing [1] then takes the first item in that sequence thus if $AuthorId is not the empty sequence then author_id is compared to the value of (the first item) $AuthorId and if it the empty sequence then it is compared to author_id itself which is always true, basically not doing any filtering at all.



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