RE: Node with maximum attribute value

There is still the problem of a "return value". I want to use the
max-of-rest in an XPath, probably several times. Doing all this recursion
several times for each template instantiation would be very time consuming.

BTW, your logic appears to print out an increasing series of numbers, or the
last Max value it found, for every node. It doesn't have a single output.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kay Michael
> Sent: 21 February 2000 18:26
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: Node with maximum attribute value
>
>
> >I want to find the maximum mid attribute from the node-set.
>
> This is one that does need recursion, follow the logic:
>
> template name="get-max"
> param name="nodes"
>  choose
>  when test="$nodes"
>    variable name="max-of-rest"
>     call-template name="get-max"
>      with-param name="nodes" select="$nodes[position()!=1]"
>     /call-template
>    /variable
>    choose
>    when test="nodes[1]/@mid > $max-of-rest"
>     value-of select="nodes[1]/@mid"
>    /when
>    otherwise
>     value-of select="$max-of-rest"
>    /otherwise
>    /choose
>  /when
>  otherwise
>   value-of select="-1 div 0" <!-- minus infinity -->
>  /otherwise
>  /choose
> /template
>
> Mike Kay
>
>
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