Re: [xsl] Selecting elements from source document based on matches to a second document

["Graydon graydon@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:12:08AM -0000, Trevor Nicholls trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit:
> The requirement (preferably XSL 2)  is to filter a log of source code edits by
> a list of paths held in a separate document. I can't believe there's not an
> elegant way of doing this in XSL but I haven't yet managed to find one.

In 3, there's xsl:evaluate.

In 2, you can write a stylesheet to construct a stylesheet. 

If you use this approach to consume the document with the path lists and
produce the transform that will report on the presence or absence of
something at that path once you run it on the log, you get something
reasonably efficient.

(This is still generally maybe more of an XQuery kind of thing.)

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