Re: Problem with <a> conversion

Hi jeni
I agree with you..

From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: "Vasu Chakkera" <vasucv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Problem with <a> conversion
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:26:04 +0100

Hi Vasu,

> If you are trying to get hold of the all the a elements in the xml
> document irrespective of where or under which element they appear
> ,you can use //a instead of the a under each of the elements..

That's true, but it's simpler to just use "a", as in:

<xsl:template match="a">
  ...
</xsl:template>

The pattern "//a" matches all 'a' elements that are descendants of a
root node. Since all 'a' elements in a document are always descendants
of a root node, you may as well just match all 'a' elements rather
than having the extra test of seeing whether they're descendants of
a root node.

The same goes for any pattern: no match attribute needs to start with
"//".

Note that matching with a pattern is different from selecting with an
expression. If you had to *select* all the 'a' elements in the
document, then you would have to use "//a".

Cheers,

Jeni

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