I apologize for the multiple postings. Not sure what's going on here, but I
send it once and it seems to duplicate the message.
Dan
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From: Whitney, Dan (Canwest Digital Media)
[mailto:DWhitney(_at_)canwest(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:45 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] A question of style
Thanks Andrew, That was fast.
Forgive my ignorance ....
I understand what's going on in the first scenario, however I'm confused by the
second (I assume this is version 2.0 XSL with which I'm woefully unfamiliar).
For scenario 2
1. There's a variable "content" that contains some text and an empty var1
element.
2. There's a template that matches the var1 element and "replaces" the empty
var1 element with "fill in the blanks"
3. I assume <xsl:apply-templates select="$content"/> processes\outputs the text
with the results of the "var1" template, but how does the "var1" template
actually get applied? Also what do you mean by "and the identity template"?
Thanks,
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:25 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] A question of style
I'll have a guess....
Instead of concat() or:
<xsl:text>This is a </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$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
-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:37 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
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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