Ganesh Murthy wrote:
I have several references in my stylesheet to a pattern that
resembles:
Node[(_at_)name='AA' or @name='BB']
With time, I continuously need to update this pattern to include newer
attributes @name='CC', @name='DD' and so on.
Instead of repeating this addition in every match in the stylesheet,
I am wondering if there is some way to store this path/expression:
myexpression = "Node[(_at_)name='AA' or @name='BB']" or
myexpression = "@name='AA' or @name='BB' "
and use 'myexpression' in my pattern matches. That way, I will have
only one location to update. I have tried using variables
without success.
You could try using a key. Off the top of my head:
<xsl:key name="mykey" match="Node" use="@name='AA' or @name='BB'"/>
<xsl:template match="key('mykey','true')">...</xsl:template>
Cheers
Con
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