Use (. intersect X). It may not be intuitive, but it does exactly what you
want, and it becomes intuitive once you've done it a few times.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 1 Jan 2022, at 06:00, Chris Papademetrious
christopher(_dot_)papademetrious(_at_)synopsys(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi everyone, and happy new year's!
Let's say I have a variable that contains a set of nodes:
<xsl:variable name="nodes" select="//(foo|bar|baz)"/>
In XPath 3.0, I can apply a template directly to this node-set variable (very
cool!):
<xsl:template match="$nodes">
However, what's the best way to use this node-set variable as a predicate
filter? For example, let's say I wanted to select every preceding sibling
node directly before each node in the variable:
<xsl:template match="preceding-sibling::node()[1][. intersect $nodes]">
The "interesect" operator works, but it's not intuitive. Is there a simple
Boolean operator that indicates whether a given node exists in a set of
nodes? ([. = $nodes] compares text evaluations of the nodes, not the nodes
themselves.)
I hope the answer is not obvious, because I spent longer than I'd like to
admit trying to figure this out. :)
- Chris
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