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RE: Not a nested for loop.
- From: DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:30:47 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Not a nested for loop.
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Mike wrote:
> The XSLT 1.0 solution is
>
> <xsl:copy-of select="r[cat-num = document('ext.xml')/bk/n]"/>
>
> and this continues to work in XSLT 2.0.
Even slicker than Jeni's key solution.
>
> What XSLT 2.0 (or XPath 2.0) gives you is the ability to
> extend this to do a
> join that isn't a pure equijoin. For example if you want to
> do a case-blind
> comparison you can now write:
>
> <xsl:copy-of select="r[some $c in document('ext.xml')/bk/n
> satisfies upper($c)=upper(cat-num)]"/>
>
Even slicker.
thanks Mike, Jeni.
Regards DaveP
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