Re: [xsl] easy treewalker template

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 2002-03-16 17:23 +0100, Robert Sösemann wrote:
>All I want is an template that guarantees to visit each node in my XML doc
>tree.

The built-in template rule matching each element and processing all 
children should be sufficient for you.  What isn't happening that you are 
expecting to happen?

We have a free resource in our resource library (linked from our home page 
below) called "SHOWTREE" that reports on every node of an 
instance.  Perhaps that stylesheet will help you.

>When an node with a certain generate-id(.) I want it to be copied to the
>result tree with <xsl:copy>.

When using XSLT, this is not a good strategy.  A principle of using 
generate-id() is that it must be used blindly ... you can rely on the value 
returned by generate-id() to be the same for a given node each time during 
one execution of a stylesheet, but you can never rely on the value being 
the same when you run the stylesheet again.

Processors can choose any strategy they wish to formulate a generated 
identifier, provided the end result is lexically a name, but the strategy 
is not required to produce the same value each time for a node even if the 
XML document is unchanged.

Can you base your test on some unique aspect of the node in the instance 
that is authored in the information?

>Why does that only display one node and then stop?

What do you mean by "display"?

..................... Ken


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