RE: Selecting a group of elements with different names

From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE:  Selecting a group of elements with different names
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:36:28 -0000

Define the elements as members of a substitution-group S in the schema, then
you can do

select="/objects/object/schema-element(S)"

Or do

select="/objects/object//(list|box|group)"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tom tom [mailto:tomxsllist@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 February 2007 12:29
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Selecting a group of elements with different names
>
> Hi all,
>
> i need to select a group of elements whose name belongs to a
> defined list - something along the lines of:
>
> <xsl:for-each-group
> select="/objects/object//*[name() ='list' or name()='box' or
> name()='group']" group-by="concat(name(), @type)">
>
> Using XSLT 2 Can you suggest a more elegant way to list the
> element names
> than:
>
> name() ='list' or name()='box' or name()='group'
>
> ?
>
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