RE: Node with maximum attribute value

[Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>]

>I want to find the maximum mid attribute from the node-set.
 
This is one that does need recursion, follow the logic:

template name="get-max"
param name="nodes"
 choose
 when test="$nodes"
   variable name="max-of-rest"
    call-template name="get-max"
     with-param name="nodes" select="$nodes[position()!=1]"
    /call-template
   /variable
   choose
   when test="nodes[1]/@mid > $max-of-rest"
    value-of select="nodes[1]/@mid"
   /when
   otherwise
    value-of select="$max-of-rest"
   /otherwise
   /choose
 /when
 otherwise
  value-of select="-1 div 0" <!-- minus infinity -->
 /otherwise
 /choose
/template

Mike Kay
   


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