RE: Having elements defined only once with XSLT

Hi,

Thank you for your help and good tip. I'm using the XSLT 2.0, and you
are right, temporary tree seems to be a very reasonable suggestion.

Janne

> Janne Luoma wrote:
>
> > Now my XSLT script process the Source XML-file so that some of the
> > elements ('objectA', 'objectB'. 'objectC') may be resulted in the
> > beginning of the result file (or may not, based on the XSLT rules).
> That
> > XSLT script part + rules works fine!
> >
> > But in case that element ('objectB' in my sample) is defined already
> in
> > the beginning of the result file and then the same used later in the
> > document, this element should be referenced by href (not generated
> the
> > full information again!). (In cases where element is not defined in
> the
> > beginning, it should be reported fully, this works fine!). So my
> > question is: How to know which objects / elements have been
> > handled/defined already in the output, so that I could use href in
> those
> > cases?
>
> Do you use XSLT 2.0 or 1.0?
> With 2.0 you could easily transform in a first step into a temporary
> tree stored in a variable and then on the second step check the
> temporary tree in the variable.
> With 1.0 you would need to make use of an extension function like
> exsl:node-set to do this with one transformation.
>
>
> --
>
> 	Martin Honnen
> 	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/