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Re: Same name Elements in more than one node
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:51:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Same name Elements in more than one node
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Mike,
At 12:49 PM 12/26/01, you wrote:
>The problem is
>that I want to get the ENCODINGANALOG attribute for each PERSNAME
>element I output.
That's natural.
> Since I cannot figure out how to write for the
>current node PERSNAME for an instance of two PERSNAME elements,
>
><xsl:value-of select="./PESNAME[2]"/>
><xsl:value-of select="./@ENCODINGANALOG[2]"/>
That's what templates are for!
>then I decided to write two for-each statements, one inside another,
>to take care of it. It is clumsy and awkward and very very
>frustrating, but it works....
Ugh! you'll find the "solution" scales poorly and is very brittle.
Is there any reason *not* to use templates?
Cheers,
Wendell
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