I would say, this is not possible with standard XSLT. Probably some
extension exists for this; but I don't know about such extensions ...

I think, in your case, it's only a lexical redundancy. It should not
affect the performance of your stylesheet.


On Dec 3, 2007 6:51 PM, Sascha Mantscheff <922492@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a stylesheet with a template and a for-each statement.
> Both select their elements by an expression which differs only in one
> part from each other.
>
> The template is:
>
> <xsl:template match="*[not(self::blockquote|self::center|self::BODY|
> self::body|self::div|self::dl|self::dt|self::HEAD|self::head|self::HTML|
> self::img|self::h1|self::h2|self::h3|self::h4|self::h5|self::h6|
> self::hr|self::html|self::idx:*|self::form|
> self::mbp:*[not(self::mbp:nu)]|self::mmc:*|self::ol|self::p|self::table|
> self::td|self::th|self::tr|
> self::ul)][preceding-sibling::node()[1][name()=name(current()) and
> string-join(@*,'xx') = string-join(current()/@*,'xx')]]"
> />
>
> The for-each select is:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::node()[1][not(self::blockquote|
> self::center|self::BODY|self::body|self::div|self::dl|self::dt|
> self::HEAD|self::head|self::HTML|self::img|self::h1|self::h2|self::h3|
> self::h4|self::h5|self::h6|self::hr|self::html|self::idx:*|self::form|
> self::mbp:*[not(self::mbp:nu)]|self::mmc:*|self::ol|self::p|self::table|
> self::td|self::th|self::tr|self::ul)] [name()=name(current()) and
> string-join(@*,'xx') = string-join(current()/@*,'xx')]">
>
> How can I reduce the redundancy and use the same expression in both
> statements, like in this pseudo code:
>
> <xsl:template
> match="*[$NO_BLOCK_ELEMENTS][preceding-sibling::node()[1][name()=name(current()) and $SAME_ATTRIBUTES]]"
> />
>
> <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::node()[1][$NO_BLOCK_ELEMENTS]
> [name()=name(current()) and $SAME_ATTRIBUTES]">


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi