On 2 Dec 2004 13:09:39 -0800, mminella@s... (Michael) wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am creating an XSL that is going to create a report from XML we
>recieve from another system.  The XML would look like:
>
><report>
>  <page>
>    <header1>
>      <data1>asdf</data1>
>      <data2>fdas</data2>
>    </header1>
>    <header2>
>      <dataA>xyz</dataA>
>      <dataB>zyx</dataB>
>    </header2>
...
></report>
>
>Due to the size of the XML, I'm attempting to modularize the XSL.  I
>want to pull out the data for the header into a seperate template. 
>Currently I have the template as:
>
><xsl:template match="header1 | header2">
>  <!-- rest of the template -->
></xsl:template>
>
>And I call it by:
>
><xsl:apply-templates select="header1 | header2"/>
>
>The issue I'm having is that my XSL is being executed twice, once for
>each node (header1 and header2) rather than going thru both nodes at
>once.  The goal is to go thru both nodes at once.  Any assistance
>would be appreciated.

If you want to process both nodes at once, and process the header in a
separate template, why not call a named template?

<xsl:call-template name="header"/>

<xsl:template name="header">
   <element><xsl:value-of select="header1/data1"/></element>
   <another-element><xsl:value-of select="header2/dataB"/>
   </another-element>
   ...
</xsl:template>
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Morris M. Keesan -- keesan@a...