<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates> could also be written as
<xsl:apply-templates/>, saving some space and making it clear that
there is nothing insde.
Michel
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Carlisle
<davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
On 28/01/2011 08:20, Jacobus Reyneke wrote:
The XSL I wrote below works, but I'm looking for ways to improve my
coding style. Is this a bad way of writing style sheets? - in
particular the fact that I call "apply-templates" about a million
times.
The usual error of beginners is that they don't use apply-templates enough
and over use for-each and value-of. apply-templates is the heart and soul of
xslt, the more times it's used the merrier.
Also, I could not get the Act numbering to be added in the Scene
title, so I left it in the Act element, where I would have liked a
Scene title like "Act 1, Scene 1" but using position() from within the
scene match gave me strange numbering.
if you just use <xsl:apply-templates/> that means select="node() so selects
all nodes includng he white space text nodes between elements and so
position() probably went up in steps of two. You could use
<xsl:apply-templates select="scene"/> in your act template 9if scenes are
the only child type) then the sequence being processed will just have scenes
and position() will reflect the scene number. but probably better would be
to use xsl:number from="act" count="scene"
David
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