Re: limiting a apply-template

Sam Carleton wrote:
> This is what I have:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//*[@url=$docUri]" mode="dspLocal"/>
> 
> Normally the url attribute in the XML will be unique, but not
> always.  When it is not unique, I only want to process the first
> node it finds.  How do I do that?

(//*[@url=$docUri])[1]

Of course if you can eliminate the //* and provide a more specific path,
it will be faster. Or use keys:

<xsl:key name="elem-by-url" match="*" use="@url"/>
...
<xsl:template ...>
  ...
  <xsl:apply-templates select="key('elem-by-url',$docUri)"/>


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