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On Sunday, July 29, 2001 9:35 PM Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > Michael Beddow writes: > > Actually, reflecting on what Alexander says, I suppose that's the > > answer: do a first pass through, doing nothing but assign id's via > > generate-id() as required, and treat the result as the input for all the > > other transformations. Now I can enjoy the sunshine again. > > I am not so sure. If you don't write the transformed result back to > disk, its surely an unncessary processing cost? and if you do save the > result, the ids are gibberish for subsequent editors > What I was thinking of was doing this on the xml source when I first receive it (if/when it doesn't already contain the id's on the elements I want id's in the transformed output). This would meet my purposes, though I see on re-reading your post more carefully it wouldn't address the specific problem you have. Michael --------------------------------------------------------- Michael Beddow http://www.mbeddow.net/ XML and the Humanities page: http://xml.lexilog.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------- XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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