I'll have a guess....
Instead of concat() or:
<xsl:text>This is a </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$var1"/>
<xsl:text> example</xsl:text>
with <xsl:variable name="var" select="'fill in the blanks'"/>
you could do
<xsl:variable name="content">This is a <var1> example</xsl:variable>
with <xsl:apply-templates select="$content"/>
and <xsl:template match="var1">fill in the blanks</xsl:template> (and
the identity template)
The latter being more flexible.
cheers
andrew
On 27 July 2010 19:12, Whitney, Dan (Canwest Digital Media)
<DWhitney(_at_)canwest(_dot_)com> wrote:
Dimitre,
I know you said that you'd post an example, so some very, very gently
prodding, I too would be very interested in an example of what you mean by
"fill-in-the-blanks".
Thanks,
Dan
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From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [xsl] A question of style
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Lars Huttar <lars_huttar(_at_)sil(_dot_)org>
wrote:
On 7/7/2010 5:54 PM, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
I definitely prefer using the concat() function than a sequence of
alternating <xsl:text> and <xsl:value-of>.
concat() is more or less the equivalent of prinf() in C or
string.format() in C#. We don't have control characters like \n or \t,
but this can easily be circumvented by using either variables (in XSLT
1.0) or character-maps in XSLT 2.0.
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*Even better*, one can use a separate "fill-in the blanks" XML
document in which only specific elements need to be transformed into
result values.
This is a good technique which completely separates presentation from
processing and allows that different "layouts" be filled-in by
different transformations or the results of the same transformation be
presented in different layouts.
I believe this is probably one of the most important piece of
knowledge that I have shared with our fellows XSLT developers in the
course of many years.
Dmitri,
I could only partly understand what you're describing. Have you written
an article on it somewhere that you could link to? with examples?
Thanks,
Lars
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Lars,
I will find time during the next days to post a simple example.
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