Re: [xsl] following-sibling is evil

Subject: Re: [xsl] following-sibling is evil
From: "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:35:10 -0000
Ouch! According to those slides, eXist doesn't do early exit for an expression
like preceding::word[1]. That's really painful. I do hope they have fixed that
in the meantime!

Michael Kay
Saxonica
mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
+44 (0118) 946 5893



On 6 Jul 2014, at 12:20, Syd Bauman s.bauman@xxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> See
>
http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol3/author-pkg/Birnbaum01/BalisageVol3-B
irnbaum01.html
> (Yes, the problem here is different than in the paper, and here keys
> are likely to be the best solution. But nice to know you're not alone
> with this sort of issue.)

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