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RE: traversing the document twice for different tasks
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] traversing the document twice for different tasks
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:19:04 +0100
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> I want to traverse through an existing xml document twice;
> during one traversal i need to get the maximum count of the node.
> and during the other traversal i need to output the results,
> which has the
> heading lines as the maximum counted nodes.
>
You can traverse it twice - no problem. But you don't need to, just use the
count() function to count the nodes before the "second" traversal starts.
You may not even need to do that, you may be able to use the last() function
during the traversal.
Mike Kay
Software AG
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