Ok, let's say you have a file of:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<foo>
<bar>
<blort>
<p id="c1001"><body wit="A B C">This is a
<app><rdg wit="A B">test</rdg><rdg wit="C">really big
test</rdg></app>
but only a test!</body></p>
<p id="c1002"><body wit="A B C">This is a
<app><rdg wit="A B">test</rdg><rdg wit="C">really big
test</rdg></app>
but only a test!</body></p>
<p id="c1003"><body wit="A B C">This is a
<app><rdg wit="A B">test</rdg><rdg wit="C">really big <add>
place="supra">test</add></rdg></app>
but only a test!</body></p>
...
<p id="c9205"><body wit="A B C">This is a
<app><rdg wit="A B">test</rdg><rdg wit="C">really
<gap/>test</rdg></app>
but only a test!</body></p>
</blort>
</bar>
</foo>
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What is the most efficient/quickest way of grabing a copy-of a particular <p>
(and
children) by its @id?
Is it best to do something like:
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<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="id($id)"/>
</xsl:template
<!-- and another empty template matching anything you don't want to display -->
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or is there a quicker way? Is key() quicker? The @id is in reality declared as
type ID, so seems reasonable to use that. (This is for a quite large (well
2.5meg), file,
which admittedly would probably be better just burst out into seperate files
for each <p> element in this example.) Any suggestions appreciated.
-James
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http://www.uea.ac.uk/~q503
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