Michael Kay wrote:
>>I need to match a variablelist containing:
>>
>> 1. An optional title element,
>> 2. after this, one or more varlistentry elements.
>>
>> <t:template match="variablelist[...]">
>> ^^^
>>How to write
BTW, I would have figured out how to write it in XPath1.0, but I thought
that I must be missing something very obvious if I write lines of XPath
for a supersimple "two-word" content model.
> Use XSLT 2.0 and schemas
>
> <xsl:template match="variablelist[. instance of my:vbl-list-type]">
Although I would prefer (sorted by preference)
1. All of the below :)
Options are good IMHO.
2. Simple and short XPath match patterns for describing simple content
models.
3. If external snippets are required, I'd prefer RNG over WXS, but ...
4. ... XSLT2+WXS might turn out to be an improvement over XSLT1 + very
long XPaths.
Especially if the schema of the source of the transformation is written
in WXS/RNG (the SVG WG might choose RNG for example), some situations
might become quite fun: One could simply reference existing fragments of
the XSD (~XPointers allowed?), and/or copy some others and use them as
basis for the content model descriptions referenced in the XPath pattern
(refernced as in your example above).
> We are working on improving the syntax for this common case.
Awesome! I'm looking forward to your ideas.
Tobi
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