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RE: the joy of breaking out from procedural/imperative programming style (was: Re: Peculiar Problem in .xsl file

2002-12-07 13:31:52

Things get even better in XSLT2/Xpath2
<xsl:stylesheet ...  xmlns:dt="http://www.mySchemas.com/date";>
<xsl:function name=" dt:getMonthName" 
xmlns:dt="http://www.mySchemas.com/date";>
    <xsl:param name="date"/>
    <xsl:variable name="months" 
select="tokenize("January,February,March,April,May,June,July,A
ugust,Septembe
r,October,November,December",',')"/>
    <xsl:return select="$months[number(substring($monthNum,5,2))]"/>
</xsl:function>
...

No, it's even easier than that in XPath 2

<xsl:variable name="months" select="('January', 'February', ...)"/>
<xsl:result select="$months[number(substring($monthNum,5,2))]"/>

i.e., you can write the sequence as a literal sequence, you don't need
to create it by tokenizing a string.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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