Subject: Re: [xsl] Problem with <a> conversion From: "Vasu Chakkera" <vasucv@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 10:35:24 +0000 |
Hi jeni I agree with you..
From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: "Vasu Chakkera" <vasucv@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Problem with <a> conversion Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:26:04 +0100
Hi Vasu,
> If you are trying to get hold of the all the a elements in the xml > document irrespective of where or under which element they appear > ,you can use //a instead of the a under each of the elements..
That's true, but it's simpler to just use "a", as in:
<xsl:template match="a"> ... </xsl:template>
The pattern "//a" matches all 'a' elements that are descendants of a root node. Since all 'a' elements in a document are always descendants of a root node, you may as well just match all 'a' elements rather than having the extra test of seeing whether they're descendants of a root node.
The same goes for any pattern: no match attribute needs to start with "//".
Note that matching with a pattern is different from selecting with an expression. If you had to *select* all the 'a' elements in the document, then you would have to use "//a".
Cheers,
Jeni
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