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RE: [xsl] looping through Elements stored in a variable..

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Has the option of two passes (separate transforms) been mentioned yet in this thread?

It's sometimes easy to forget that multiple passes can be achieved by making, um, multiple passes. :-> (In this case the first pass would be a simple routine to make the university list available in the source tree: trivial.)

Of course, Mike is also correct that the node-set casting function can't be done without to process result node-sets, as are others who pointed out that in this case, the information in the variable may also be served up in (or as) an internal lookup table, so there's also another workaround.

But lately I've been learning how there are actually some advantages for maintenance to splitting up a transform into separate passes, even when you don't need the node-set() extension. (Not that this is one of them.)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:23 AM 11/19/2002, you wrote:

If it were possible to do this in XSLT 1.0 without using the
xx:node-set() extension, then the xx:node-set() extension would not have
been invented. You're out of luck, I'm afraid. Unless of course you use
an XSLT 1.1 or XSLT 2.0 processor.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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> Laura Jenkins
> Sent: 18 November 2002 17:12
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> Subject: [xsl] looping through Elements stored in a variable..
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> Hello people,
> i have the following xsl structure
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>  <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:variable name="univ-var">
>    <University-List>
>     <University id = "1"> University1</University>
>     <University id = "2"> University2</University>
>     <University id = "3"> University3</University>
>     <University id = "4"> University4</University>
>    </University-List >
>   </xsl:variable>
> <!-- i want to iterate through this variable without usiing
> the extension nodeset..-->
> <!-- something along the lines of .. -->
>   <xsl:for-each select="$place-var/placements/placement">
>   <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>   </xsl:for-each>
>  </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> What i was doing obviousl;y does not work because it needs to
> be a nodeset. Can any one tell me how to do this without
> using the extension : nodeset. Its is  MANDATORY that I  DO
> NOT USE the extension nodeset. Thanks

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