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Re: [xsl] How to render TEI s with chapter-like pagination?

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--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>   <xsl:key name="x"  match="node()"
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use="generate-id((..|preceding-sibling::div1|preceding-sibling::div2|preceding-sibling::div3)[last()])"/>
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>   can only match <div1>, <div2>, and <div3>
> elements,
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> No. It matches all nodes (match="node()") and
> indexes them by the
> genererate-id of the nearest preceding sibling dvi*
> , or the parent if
> there is no such sibling.
>
> This means that if you are on a div* and look up the
> key using the
> generate-id of teh current node, you get returned
> the nodes that have
> this key value, which is all teh nodes for which
> this is the nearest
> preceding sibling div*

Ah, I see now. I had read the stuff at
jenitennisson.com, but I hadn't realized that what
<xsl:key/> was doing was setting up a sort of lookup
table. No wonder I didn't get what you were doing. My
bad.

BTW, are you using the generated ID of the parent
mainly as a placeholder value?

> making a key on node9) is a bit expensive as it puts
> every node in teh
> document into the index, you would probably be
> better to change the
> match to
> div1/node()

Which is probably cheaper, the key method or the
method with the variable and count() earlier in the
thread.


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