Hi Andrew,
All of your recommendations made sense to me except this one:
- instead of xsl:value-of use xsl:apply-templates
I have been seeing "value-of" as a kind of "literal print" into the result
document. How could "apply-templates" be substituted for it?
Mark
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From: Andrew Welch
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 3:55 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Can a single XPath statement duplicate the functionality
of this verbose statement?
On 24 October 2011 11:31, Mark <mark(_at_)knihtisk(_dot_)org> wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for this additional information. I am still trying to learn to view
problems from a non-C++ perspective. Makes my head hurt :-)
No worries... the whole template matching process takes a while to
get, it did for me anyway.
A general guide is:
- don't use xsl:for-each, use xsl:apply-templates
- don't use named templates, use xsl:apply-templates with a mode
- if a template just contains a choose/when, separate out the branches
into individual templates
- instead of xsl:value-of use xsl:apply-templates
- one large template is bad, lots of specific small templates is good.
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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
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