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RE: value-of or apply-templates

2004-03-10 05:07:44
Hi Richard

A question on style: if you have a document which consists of 
a series of 
repeating structures (such as a table of records or a simple 
document of 
paragraphs) should you use:

<xsl:apply-templates />

or:

<xsl:value-of select=".">

when you get to the node nested at the lowest level and you 
simply want to get 
its content?

It depends on your goals.

        <xsl:value-of select=".">

is a very boring way of doing what you want.

        <xsl:apply-templates />

is nice and obscure and offers excellent opportunities of doing
something different if anyone else maintains your code.

        Regards
                        
                Ed Willink

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