RE: attributes and template modes

The spec does not indicate that the mode attribute is an attribute value
template or an expression, which is why specifying an expression or
attribute value template doesn't work.  This attribute is a plain QName,
therefore there is no way to pass an expression as the mode argument value.
So using <xsl:choose> or <xsl:if> is the only way to do this that I know of.
--
mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Bylenok [mailto:gbylenok@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 8:43 PM
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: attributes and template modes
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone using template modes extensively?  I've been struggling with
> template modes, and I'm hoping someone can explain what's happening
> here. I'm trying to make one template dispatch to one of 
> several others
> based on the value of an attribute. Here are my first three attempts,
> none of which succeeded. Any insight into why my first three guesses
> failed?
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates match="." mode="@type" />
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates match="." mode="{@type}"/>
> 
> < xsl:apply-templates match=".[@type='text']" mode="text"/>
> 
> I finally broke down and resorted to the "choose" directive, which is
> not elegant but works correctly:
> 
>  <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test=" @type='text' ">
>               <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="text"/>
>         </xsl:when>
>   </xsl:choose>
> 
> thanks for any insights,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
> 
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