Re: Template Matching Question

["Steve Muench" <Steve dot Muench at oracle dot com>]

| <Page>
|     <Unit>
|         <Dependent1>
|             <Name>
|             <ID>
|         <Dependent2>
|             <Name>
|             <ID>
|
| Is it possible to do a template match for Dependent that ignores the number
| in the Dependent tag? That way, I can do a for-each to process the
| Dependents... Maybe using something dealing with parent/child node
| relationships?

Not the most efficient, but the following will work:

  <xsl:template match="*[starts-with(local-name(.),'Dependent')]"

this will match any element (*) whose local name (that is,
ignoring any namespaces) starts with the string "Dependent"

If it doesn't appear to work, you may need to add a priority="2"
attribute get the this template chosen over others.

______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
BC4J & XSQL Servlet Development Teams, Oracle Rep to XSL WG
Author "Building Oracle XML Applications", O'Reilly
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