[DDI-users] Re: DDI-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 1

[I-Lin Kuo]

It is unwieldy but not impossible to use XPath to get XPath to process the
node list.

Append a space before and after the @var, append a space before and after
the @ID, and then do a simple contains string comparison. The XPath might
look something like this (untested)

<xsl:variable name="varIDList" select="concat(' ', at var,' ')"/>
... select="//var[contains($varIDList, concat(' ', at ID,' '))]

This will likely be slow as molasses, though.

On 10/9/06, Steve McRoberts <steve.mcroberts at doit.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone that replied. That will be doable although the
> attribute seems a little unwieldy with several hundred var elements
> listed in some cases. It does make it impossible to do XPath to
> process node lists during transformation presentation. I wanted to
> XPath all var elements that belonged to a specific group/topic.
> Instead I imagine I'll have to recursively parameterize the attribute
> string and chop off a var each visit.
> //Steve
>
>

-- 
I-Lin Kuo
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