Viral,
This is actually a pretty nice example of how XSL-think is different from
the kind of thinking that is useful (and necessary) in procedural languages:
At 12:07 PM 1/7/2003, you wrote:
So I was thinking that if I could test and see if the displayCommunity
template got applied or not then that will tell me we found a record or not.
But I am not sure how to determine how many times that template was applied
or not.
Mmhm. In other words, you're asking for a side-effect (some kind of state
that can tell you whether a given template was applied or not). But the
same logic could be addressed by asking "does a matching record exist in
the source?", and if not, outputting the error message.
This question is very easy to ask in XSLT. And notice it is actually a more
straightforward question -- being a question about your data, not your
process. It's a nice little lesson, especially for those just getting their
feet wet with XSLT.
Please post again with a short example showing your source code, if you
need more concrete suggestions.
Cheers,
Wendell
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