On 10/31/06, len feremans <lenferemans(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi,
I am writing XSLT 1.0 stylesheets over a year now and was wondering if the
following is possible in XSLT 2.0: Applying a key to only part of a
document.
For example:
Let's say I do a for-each on each child of a node "$node1" and then check if
a "$node2" has any child with the same id...
<xsl:template name="compare">
<xsl:param name="node1"/>
<xsl:param name="node2"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$node1/e">
<xsl:variable name="id1" select="@id"/>
<xsl:variable name="n2" select="$node2/e[(_at_)id =
$id1]"/> //can be slow
//do something with node2
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Now this code can be quite slow if there are thousands of nodes under $node2
or $node1.
The complexity would be O(N*K) where N = number of children of $node1 and K
= number of children of $node2. If I could use a key then complexity could
be O(N*log(K)). xsl:key would be also very usefull if it could be created
dynamically inside a template... The code could look something like this:
<xsl:template name="compare">
<xsl:param name="node1"/>
<xsl:param name="node2"/>
<xsl:key name="nodes" match="$node2/e" use="@id"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$node1/e">
<xsl:variable name="id1" select="@id"/>
<xsl:variable name="n2" select="key('nodes',$id1)"/>
//fast
//do something with node2
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
You could just do a set compare:
<xsl:apply-templates select="$node2/e[(_at_)id = $node1/e/@id]"/>
which you could optimize by storing $node1 ids in a variable:
<xsl:variables name="node1IDs" select="$node1/e/@id" as="xs:string+"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$node2/e[(_at_)id = $node1IDs]"/>
Or key it:
<xsl:key name="e-by-id" match="e" use="@id"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$node2/e[key('e-by-id', @id, $node1)]"/>
Either way should be faster than the for-each.
cheers
andrew
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