Re: a nicer total sibling count than this

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Subject: Re: a nicer total sibling count than this
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:25:44 -0400

Michael Kay wrote:


Using position() and last() will often be more efficient than using
count() and xsl:number, because they work on the current node list,
which you are using anyway to output the nodes.

thanks for that. Efficiency is important here, as it's likely that such a template would be called in the order of tens to hundreds of thousands of times in a typical dictionary.

And here's me thinking that TIMTOWTDI only applied to Perl ... ;-)

cheers,
Stewart

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