Here's what I'm currently doing:
XSL:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl
="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*|@*|processing-instruction()|text()">
<!-- This seems to be the worst part. I'm doing string
comarisons on the node name on every node in the tree.
That's gotta be bad... -->
<xsl:if test="not(name()='Part') or
(contains(@DisplayValue,'BM5125') )">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|processing-instruction()|text()">
<xsl:sort order="ascending" select="@DisplayValue" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Firstly, you can use copy-of rather than apply-templates to process the
attributes.
You can use a direct nametest rather than a string comparison on the
name, and if your data is to be believed, you can use starts-with rather
than contains. You can also use template rules rather than xsl:if to
distinguish the two kinds of processing to be performed
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Part[not(starts-with(@DisplayValue,
'BM5125'))]"/>
Michael Kay
Software AG
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