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Re: a nicer total sibling count than this
- From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss at sympatico dot ca>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:25:44 -0400
- Subject: Re: [xsl] a nicer total sibling count than this
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Michael Kay wrote:
Using position() and last() will often be more efficient than using
count() and xsl:number, because they work on the current node list,
which you are using anyway to output the nodes.
thanks for that. Efficiency is important here, as it's likely that such a template would be called in the order of tens to hundreds of thousands of times in a typical dictionary.
And here's me thinking that TIMTOWTDI only applied to Perl ... ;-)
cheers,
Stewart
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