RE: [xsl] More efficient way than following-sibling?

["Oleg Tkachenko" <olegt at multiconn dot com>]

Hello Michael!

> I am trying to find a more efficient way to determine if a node has
> siblings, and then access the next sibling.
> 
> Currently, I am running the following XSLT code:
> 
> <xsl:if test="$TheNode/following-sibling::node()">
>  <xsl:call-template name="GenericTemplate">
>   <xsl:with-param name="TheNode" 
> select="$TheNode/following-sibling::*[1]"/>
>  </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:if>
> 
> However, this is very expensive, when it comes to large XML documents.
> 
> Does anyone know a more efficient way to do this?

The most efficient way I believe is to eliminate preliminary testing at all:

<xsl:apply-templates select="$TheNode/following-sibling::*[1]" mode="foo"/>

<xsl:template match="node() | @*" mode="foo">
	<xsl:call-template name="GenericTemplate">
		<xsl:with-param name="TheNode" select="."/>
	</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

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Oleg Tkachenko,
Multiconn International, Israel 


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