Re: [xsl] in search for more elegant XPaths

Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE) wrote:

> I am thinking about a way to make some XPaths, that I'am using quite
> often, more "elegant".
> Please take for example:
>
> <xsl:function name="ln:getCaseType">
>         <xsl:param name="case" as="element()"/>
>         <xsl:choose>
>                 <xsl:when test="starts-with($case, 'SG') or
> starts-with($case, 'LSG') or starts-with($case, 'BSG')">
If you think that regular expressions are more readable then you could use
   <xsl:when test="matches($case, '^(SG|LSG|BSG)')">
It could even be compacted to
   <xsl:when test="matches($case, '^[LB]?SG')">


> I very often testing for element nodes that have character content with
> *[string-length(normalize-space(.))&gt;0]
  *[normalize-space(.)]

should suffice.

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        Martin Honnen
        http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

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