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Re: Xalan equivalent for <msxsl:script>?
- To: "Mazza, Glen" <glen dot mazza at eds dot com>
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Xalan equivalent for <msxsl:script>?
- From: Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:51:14 +0000
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- Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi Glen,
> 1) As a sanity check, is this pretty much the way to calculate the
> largest value in a list? Is there any quick XPath/XSLT instruction
> that would do the same thing without me needing to resort to
> functions or recursion?
Two ways. An XPath expression that only selects a book if there are no
other books that have a higher cost, and gets the cost of that one:
<xsl:value-of select="book[not(../book/cost > cost)]/cost" />
And a loop that only uses the first value from the sorted list:
<xsl:for-each select="book">
<xsl:sort select="cost" data-type="number" order="descending" />
<xsl:if test="position() = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="cost" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
If you only have a few books per author, then the first is nice and
simple. If you have more, then the for each with the sort is more
efficient. If you have lots then recursion or a function like you
have will be best. Don't ask me what 'few', 'more' and 'lots' mean -
you should try it out with your particular source XML to see what
gives the best performance.
I hope that helps,
Jeni
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