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Paul Prescod wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Tyler Baker wrote: > > > <xsl:process select="../../../heading"/> > > > > >From what I understand, this would say first go to the third parent node > > of the current node and select all heading elements and process them. > > This would seem to be an error since another template may already have > > processed these heading elements. > > What's wrong with processing the same element twice? That is necessary in > many cases (e.g. processing a title in the context of a cross reference, a > TOC, and in its natural locataion) > > > Another question is what to do with Absolute Anchors. I would think > > that for select patterns it would not make sense for this to be allowed > > as the entire template match then has nothing to do with the actual > > processing. For example if I match a particular element and then select > > a set of nodes who are anchored at the root, this would be like doing > > global processing independent of the match argument. > > What's wrong with that? The WD provides an example of where you would want > to do that. Do a search for "CFO". Jim's previous post answered all of these questions. Not being tremendously familiar with stylesheet languages in the past, I was previously under the impression that you could only process content in the source tree once. Regards, Tyler xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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