Re: [xsl] ordering and iteration problem

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

At 09:07 PM 5/1/01, Mark wrote:
>Dan Diebolt writes:
>
>  > If you are low on nodes, why can't you take your random-nodes from
>  > both the stylesheet and source XML document?
>  >
>  > xsl:variable name="random-nodes"
>  >    select="document('')//node()|//node()" />
>
>I know that the source XML document has enough nodes since the
>elements that I need to use the random nodes iteration hack for is a
>subset of it.  I don't know for sure if the XSLT transform document
>will have enough nodes.  I was just wondering why this "design
>pattern" was typically described using "document('')//node()" when
>"//node()" seemed to be more correct.

Maybe we use document('')//node() to remind ourselves of how arbitrary it is.

As originally described, the "pattern" (kind of a fancy name for this 
idiom/technique/workaround :-) doesn't care what node-set you use as long 
as it's big enough (and it's up to you to make sure it is).

But now I'm curious: why can't you just iterate over your subset of 
elements, since you apparently know what they are? (I guess I should check 
the archives.)

Cheers,
Wendell


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