Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> I have a custom element <rfc> to put references to RFC. I want to add
> a small blurb explaining how to get a RFC but, since there are many
> references to RFC in a given text, I want it to appear only the first
> time.
>
> I have no idea on how to do that. Both XSL and DSSSL are stateless so
> I cannot keep a "already_seen" variable.
But both XSL and DSSSL has query language, something which is not
available in LaTeX. Try something like:
<xsl:template match="rfc">
... process element ...
<xsl:if test="not(preceding::rfc)">
... stuff to appear when we are on a first occurence of rfc
element...
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Jirka
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