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asdf asdf

Subject: Multiple OR statements, a better way?
Author: asdf asdf
Date: 20 Nov 2006 03:37 AM

Good afternoon everybody!

I have this problem where i need to check a the value of a node and do something when it is true

I am using

xsl:if test="myele = 5 or myele = 9 or myele = 10......"

but there are about 50 choices that need to be included in this test, surely there is a better way,

Other programming languages, I am so used to just creating a "list" and then saying myele in list but xsl doesn't seem to have this syntax

Any help would be grand, come on show me the light!

James Durning

Subject: Multiple OR statements, a better way?
Author: James Durning
Date: 20 Nov 2006 01:27 PM

You could create an xml fragment in your xslt to have the possible choices, eg:
<my:values xmlns:my="internal">
<value>5</value>
<value>9</value>
<value>10</value>
<value>15</value>
...
</my:values>

and then
<xsl:if test="myele = document('')//value">
or
<xsl:if test="document('')//value[.=current()/myele]">

asdf asdf

Subject: Multiple OR statements, a better way?
Author: asdf asdf
Date: 22 Nov 2006 04:09 AM

Thanks alot James, you have shed a great deal of light on many of the problems that I will encounter in the next couple of months

XML is grand!

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