Use *[name()=$fieldname], and if it's too slow then find a faster processor.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Hunziker [mailto:stefan.stanjasele@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 January 2009 23:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  accessing multiple xml documents from 
> within one template
> 
> I have a solution now for accessing both trees, I have to 
> step through the reportDef using xsl:for-each. But now I have 
> the next problem:
> 
> In $fieldname there is the desired tag, eg "title". Can I get 
> the title element of my current book node without looping 
> through the whole node and comparing with name(.)=$fieldname? 
> The given sample is a simplification, the real book node in 
> my application has maybe 100 elements and with maybe 1000 
> books this would be a little bit too time consuming.
> 
> any ideas?