Re: [xsl] Making groups of N elements --> Photo index

[Antonio Fiol <fiol at w3ping dot com>]

I am using saxon, packaged for Debian, version 6.4.4.

In this case, portability is not a main concern, as I will use a script 
to do the transform "once", and then I'll use the HTML generated 
document in a browser.

However, I am developing other things using XSLT, and I am interested in 
those being portable.

Portable meaning, at least: saxon + mozilla + IE6.0 (msxml, right version).

Could any of you point me to a document with portability advice?


Thank you very much. Your help is so great!!


Antonio Fiol



Michael Kay wrote:


> > Thank you for your advice about the result tree fragments. I 
> > found that 
> > feature very useful.
> >
> > What is xx:node-set() ? Is it something portable?
> >    
> It's an extension function that's available in nearly every XSLT
> processor, though the namespace varies which makes it non-portable.
> Several processors support the EXSLT namespace (see www.exslt.org) which
> improves the situation.
>  
>
> > I did it _without_ that function, as follows (comments welcome).
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="allphotos"> <xsl:apply-templates 
> > select="/fotos/foto" mode="identity"> <xsl:sort 
> > order="ascending" select="@id" data-type="number" /> 
> > </xsl:apply-templates> <foto id="100000000000" dummy="logo" 
> > src="logo.gif" href="http://homepage"; /> <foto 
> > id="100000000001" dummy="yes" /> <foto id="100000000002" 
> > dummy="yes" /> <foto id="100000000003" dummy="yes" /> <foto 
> > id="100000000004" dummy="yes" /> <foto id="100000000005" 
> > dummy="yes" /> <foto id="100000000006" dummy="yes" /> <foto 
> > id="100000000007" dummy="yes" /> </xsl:variable>
> >
> >  <xsl:for-each select="$allphotos/foto[(position() mod 8) = 
> > 1 and not(@dummy='yes')]">
> >    
> Then you're using a processor that implements the "implicit conversion
> of result tree fragments to node-sets" offered by the XSLT 1.1 and XSLT
> 2.0 working drafts: this code isn't legal in XSLT 1.0. Which processor,
> might I ask?
>
> (Saxon allows this, provided your stylesheet specifies version="1.1" or
> later. But some earlier versions of Saxon allowed it regardless).
>  


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