RE: [xsl] Finding and promoting footnotes

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:35 AM 11/30/2005, 'twas written:
> This statement within the template matching "A[@class='footnote']" --
>
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="/XML/FOOTNOTES" mode="body" />
>
> could be specialized to apply to just the TableFootnote node you require:
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//*/TableFootnote[A/@ID=$fid]" mode="body"/>
>
> from its current context by calling out to the top of the input XML using
> the "//" path expression, but at some runtime expense.  You want to avoid
> this by making up a key table of TableFootnote elements (at top level of
> stylesheet) --

...

> It is, but there is often difficulty knowing what keywords are appropriate
> to a particular problem.  This problem, as are so many of XSL, is a grouping
> problem.

Actually, I'd have called it an "ungrouping" problem (which you won't 
find in the archives :-) -- and note that this is a classic use case 
for keys, which we commonly use for grouping since we do that so 
often ... but once in a while we have to break the group up and send 
its members back home.

Cheers,
Wendell


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