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Subject: RE: [xsl] Can I substitute a predefined path/expression within the [..] tags?
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:11:01 -0000
> 
> I have several references in my stylesheet to a pattern that 
> resembles:
> 
> Node[@name='AA' or @name='BB']
> 
> With time, I continuously need to update this pattern to 
> include newer attributes @name='CC', @name='DD' and so on.
> 

This will become much easier in XSLT 2.0 with functions:

<xsl:function name="with-matching-name">
  <xsl:param name="node" as="element"/>
  <xsl:result as="xs:boolean" 
    select="$node/@name = ('AA', 'BB', 'CC')"/>
</xsl:function>

<xsl:...... select="Node[with-matching-name(.)]

Michael Kay
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