johkar wrote:
> Assume XML parent element has lots of children that are all unique
> element names.  Is the only way to loop through them to use a wildcard
> (*) for the element name in the for-each or apply-templates call?  I
> am looking for efficiency because I am going to have to do this many
> times in the XSLT and there could be hundreds of child element names
> for any given parent element.  Note, I don't have control over the XML
> tree structure.
> 
> Xpath:   /category/businesstype/*
> 
> <category>
>       <businesstype>
>               <specialty>Some text</specialty>
>               <bigbox>Some text></bigbox>
>               <internetonly>Some text</internetonly>
>               ...many many more nodes
>       </businesstype>
> </category>

I don't see any problem with using * if you want to process all element 
child nodes.
If you prefer you can name each element (type) explicitly e.g. in 2.0 
you can do
  <xsl:template match="businesstype">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="speciality, bigbox, internetonly"/>
  </xsl:template>
or in 1.0 (and of course 2.0) you can do e.g.
  <xsl:template match="businesstype">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="speciality | bigbox | internetonly"/>
  </xsl:template>
You would need to test which version performs better with the XSLT 
processor of your choice.



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