Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xsl-list Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - [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: 8/1/2008 3:50:00 PM 2008/8/1 Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Or of course you can arrange that the attribute in the source is called >>> xml:lang and use the lang() function. > > Out of interest, does xml:lang annotate the input tree, or does the > lang() function walk the ancestor axis behind the scenes? Or is it > all implementation dependent? And possibly OT, why does xml:lang exist - as in, why is there a need for an inbuilt mechanism compared to a custom solution? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/ | ||||||
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