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On 17/12/2018 17:54, Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all > I have a requirement where I need to write an xslt to extract a > particular node from source tree. > > > Someone wrote an xslt that looked like this.. pseudo code > > Template Match node()|@* > B Apply-template select node()|@* > > Template match *:ElementToExtract > B B Copy of select . > > I thought the developer was making a lot of traversing using the above > approach and he could have instead doneB > > Template match "/" > B B Copy of select descendant::*:ElementToExtract 1. Is the ElementToExtract known to be unique within the document? Or is your pseudocode masking a more extensive XPath expression to identify the document? 2. Is this occurring within a pipeline or script? That is, does the extracted value get passed into some subsequent process as a parameter, or slotted into some larger data structure for reprocessing? The reason I ask is that there are simpler tools (eg lxgrep or lxprintf) which can do a similar task (although the LTxml2 tools are restricted to XPath 1), eg lxgrep 'XPath/to/ElementToExtract[predicate]' filename or stdin Depending on the circumstances, this may be faster if the only requirement is to extract the identified element in its serialised form. Peter
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