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Re: [xsl] function returning string with string-join()

2010-08-06 07:37:58
Hi,

I would have done this one simply as
...
<xsl:sequence select="string-join (('NO', if (string($input)) then string($input) else 'x', ',html'), '')"/>
...
with the feeling that string-join() is typically faster than concat() and string() faster than set operation with predicates, and that the overall instruction is easier to read and understand

Am I right?

Cheers,
ac




Am 06.08.2010 um 11:15 schrieb Andrew Welch:

When returning atomics (such as xs:string) you should use xs:sequence
and not xsl:value-of, as value-of will create a text node that then
gets "atomized" to an atomic.
Thanks for that reminder... xsl:for-each-group and regular expressions are well 
settled in my XSLT2 mind-set, but xsl:sequence is more or less ignored.

If you didnt have the xsl:message call you could do:

    <xsl:function name="my:filename" as="xs:string">
        <xsl:param name="input" as="xs:integer" />
        <xsl:sequence select="concat(if ($input = (1,2)) then ('NO1',
'NO2')[$input] else 'NOx', '.html')"/>
    </xsl:function>
Yes, if...

I still try to find the best balance between writing some complex, possibly 
hard to debug multi-line XPath expressions or a tree of XSLT elements. Haven't 
found a general rule for that, and maybe there isn't.

Thanks a lot,

- Michael


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