On 29/09/2008, at 11:38 AM, G. Ken Holman wrote:

I've got some XML that contains a list of items and groups, and each
group could contain either more items or more groups like so :

<catalog>
       <item />
       <group>
               < group >
               < item />
               < item />
               < group >
                       < group >
                               < item />
etc

So groups can contain either items or more groups or nothing.  Items
only exist at the root (catalog) of this part of the tree or inside
groups.  I'm outputting a single list of all of the items and group
currently using this :

<xsl:for-each select="item|descendant::group|descendant::group/item">

I expect you would have a more easily maintained stylesheet if you had:

This entire xslt file is pretty simple, it's basically just that one for each and produces a single list of elements. Is there any other advantages (other than easier maintenance) to use templates over the for-each?

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