RE: Return the 10 newest news articles

Hi,

The way you are doing it does not seem to be a scalable solution.

Why don't you keep you articles in separate files named by date, for example:
[news directory]
20020824_time.xml
20020823_time.xml
etc.

Then you could have a simple preprocess that either creates a list of the 10
latest articles or aggregates them into an instance of your news.xml.

You could still do it the way you are doing it but you have not given us enough
info about you XML.

best,
-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Exide
> Arabellan
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 8:35 AM
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> Subject:  Return the 10 newest news articles
>
>
> Currently i have an XML file that holds all the news input'd from certain
> users. Its then displayed on the 1st page viewers see. Currently there are
> only 13 articles to be listed, but as it grows i dont want the page load
> times to skyrocket. How would i convert the following XSL, to only show the
> 10 most recent news articles?
>
> XML hierarchy looks like this:
>
> - news
>   - article
>     - date
>     - author
>     - title
>     - description
>
> Sample XSL:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="article">
> Title: <xsl:value-of select="title"/><br/>
> Author: <xsl:value-of select="author"/><br/>
> Description <xsl:value-of select="description"/><p/>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> "I only do what my rice crispies tell me to"
> Exide Arabellan
>
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