conditional processing in templates

I'm working on some forms processing code. Sometimes my display of a field
needs a label and sometimes it does not.

So I tried to write a template like this:

  <xsl:template mode="display" match="*[@type='date']">
  <xsl:attribute
name="onclick">buildEdit(this);popup('/cal_frame.html',400,270)</xsl:attribu
te>
  <xsl:attribute name="title"><xsl:value-of
select="local-part()"/></xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:if test="$label=1">
   <xsl:value-of select="local-part()"/>:
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:template>
.. repeated for many variable types...

And then call it with:

 <xsl:template match="employee">
  <xsl:variable name="label">1</xsl:variable>
  <table width="100%" border="1">
   <tr>
    <td><xsl:apply-templates mode="display" select="First"/></td>
    <td><xsl:apply-templates mode="display" select="Last"/></td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 </xsl:template>

But this doesn't work because $label would be a side effect.

Can this be done without duplicating the first template, one for labels and
one without?

Thank for the help,
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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