Re: [xsl] Is xsl:for-each "syntactic sugar"?

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/05/2010 14:17, Florent Georges wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
>
>    Hi,
>
> > Not "many", all uses of for-each can be equivalently handled by
> > apply-templates.
>
>    For nodes, not for atomic items, of course.

ah yes there is that:-) strange how after using xslt 2 for years you can 
still automatically drop back to giving xslt 1 answers;-)

> > <xsl:template match="/|node()" mode="unique-id">
>
>    I guess you meant match="@*|node()" ;-)

well I meant to add / (as it isn't matched by node() as it's not a 
child, but of course I should have added @* (and I thought but didn't 
mention as it would spoil a good argument, that you also need 
namespace() but that's not allowed in patterns)  so "except for atomic 
values and namespace nodes" needs inserting somewhere in my original waffle.

>    Regards,

David

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