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Thanks Michael, The solution is very clever and kind of simple, I don't know why I didn't thought that :P Bye. On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:57:20 +0100, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have 2 questions: > > I remember that I once saw somewhere a snippet of XSLT code about > > calling a template having the name in a variable, something like this: > > > > <xsl:call-template select="$tempalteToCall"/> > > > > As far as I know this can't be done with XSLT 1.0, but there was a > > work-around to do so. > > Correct it can't be done in XSLT 1.0. > > Saxon has an extension saxon:call-template that does this. > > But there is a workaround that doesn't need extensions: it's a technique > introduced by Dimitre Novatchev in his FXSL library. Essentially, if you > have a template > > <xsl:template name="x"> > > then add a match pattern: > > <xsl:template name="x" match="dynamic:x"/> > > Define a variable whose value is a node: > > <xsl:variable name="dynamic:x"><dynamic:x/></xsl:variable> > > Now you can define a variable: > > <xsl:variable name="templateToCall" select="$dynamic:x/*"/> > > and do: > > <xsl:apply-templates select="$templateToCall"/> > > which in this case will call the template dynamic:x, but can be adapted to > call whatever template the variable templateToCall is set to. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > Any one know how to do that or where to find > > info about that? It would help. > > > > The other question is about performance. I use many xsl:include and I > > would like to know if this could cause some notable performance issue > > on the processor? > > > > Thanks. > > Bye > > > > Francesco. > > -- > > www.GetFirefox.com !! > > -- www.GetFirefox.com !!
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