Joannes Vermorel wrote:
> I have a XML document that looks like
> 
> <foo>
>   <bar id="001" ... />
>   <bar id="002" ... />
>   ...
> </foo>
> 
> I have a XSL template to represent a <bar/> node. I would like to be
> able to select a list of explicit IDs like
>    select{001; 007; 012}
> in a compact manner (and to apply the <bar/> template each selected
> node afterward).
> 
> Does anyone know a compact syntax to do that?

There is no compact syntax for that in XPath 1.0, you need e.g.
   <xsl:apply-templates select="foo/bar[@id = '001' or @id = '007' or 
@id = '012']"/>

With XPath 2.0 you can do
   <xsl:apply-templates select="foo/bar[@id = ('001', '007', '012')]"/>

What you can do in XSLT 1.0 is store the ids in the stylesheet e.g.

   <xsl:stylesheet
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     version="1.0"
     xmlns:data="http://example.com/2007/data"
     exclude-result-prefixes="data"

   <data:data xmlns="">
     <id>001</id>
     <id>007</id>
     <id>012</id>
   </data>

   <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:apply-templates
       select="foo/bar[@id = document('')/*/data:data/id]"/>
   </xsl:template>


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