Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xsl-list Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: [xsl] alternative to repeatedly walking the ancestor axis in 1.0 [Thread Next] Re: [xsl] alternative to repeatedly walking the ancestor axis in 1.0To: Date: 8/4/2008 5:18:00 PM 2008/8/4 Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Yes (although you're just walking the ancestor axis once per node in a >> different place) > > It is possible to create the following key (and any other keys!): > > <xsl:key name="kRtlMode" match="*[ancestor-or-self::*[@dir='rtl']]" > use="generate-id()"/> > > just during the initial reading of the xml document -- without any > walking up the ancestor axis. > > That is, when the currently-read node satisfies: > > @dir='rtl' > > then the "key-recording-mode" for the key named 'kRtlMode' is turned > on and key-values are generated for each element while this > "key-recording-mode" is on. > > To summarise, it is perfectly possible to create the above key without > walking up the ancestor axis for the nodes. But do you know of any implementations that build such a key like that? | ||||||
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