Re: [xsl] More efficient way than following-sibling?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Michael,

This is not all that big a deal, but what you have is much the same as:

<xsl:apply-templates select="$TheNode/following-sibling::*[1]" mode="generic"/>

and then, instead of a template called by name, a mode:

<xsl:template match="*" mode="generic">
...
</xsl:template>

This will work since the apply-templates will simply fail in the event that 
no first following sibling element exists. So you don't have to wrap the 
call in a conditional.

Is that something like what you were after?

But it's the following:: axis that's the real killer, not following-sibling::.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 02:45 PM 3/20/2002, you wrote:
>I am trying to find a more efficient way to determine if a node has
>siblings, and then access the next sibling.
>
>Currently, I am running the following XSLT code:
>
><xsl:if test="$TheNode/following-sibling::node()">
>  <xsl:call-template name="GenericTemplate">
>   <xsl:with-param name="TheNode" select="$TheNode/following-sibling::*[1]"/>
>  </xsl:call-template>
></xsl:if>
>
>However, this is very expensive, when it comes to large XML documents.
>
>Does anyone know a more efficient way to do this?
>
>--Michael Glick
>
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