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Re: [xsl] When to use conditional constructions?

2014-03-31 22:03:42
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:04:14AM -0700, Dimitre Novatchev scripsit:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Graydon <graydon(_at_)marost(_dot_)ca> wrote:
Does that give me a way to use the same definition in multiple XPath
expressions with a definition in one place?  Inline functions are
anonymous, and any "let $localFunction := function...." I'd expect to
stay stuck in the context of that particular XPath expression --

 Yes, just have in a separate my.xpath file a map from the names of
the functions to their corresponding function items.

Then in XSLT read the my.xpath file and define a variable that gets
this evaluated, using the <xsl:evaluate> instruction.

Exactly as done in the Balisage paper I quated somewhere at the start
of this thread.

And a great light dawns about why maps are worth another fundamental
type!  (Wasn't seeing what they did that you couldn't do with an XML
structure.)

Thank you; I shall have to try to comprehend that article.

-- Graydon

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