Re: conditional XSL to XSL

 
Jeff Lansing wrote:
> 
> Following a suggestion of David Carlisle, regarding another poster's
> question, to "drop out of xpath, to xslt", I can now solve this problem with:
> 
> <x:template match="el">
>   <x:variable name="match-value">
>     <x:if test="@attr = 'x'">tr[@class='title']</x:if>
>     <x:if test="not(@attr = 'x')">tr[@class='title' and position() &gt; 1]</x:if>
> 
>   </x:variable>
>   <xsl:template match="{$match-value}">
>     <xsl:value-of select="foo"/>
>     <!--whole bunch of other complicated stuff-->
>   </xsl:template>
> </x:template>


Something to add to what you wrote above...  you could actually get rid
of the need
for the variable match-value altogether by using the 'attribute'
command, which actually
cleans up the code a bit as well... thus:

 <x:template match="el">
   <xsl:template>
     <x:attribute name="match">
       <x:if test="@attr = 'x'">tr[@class='title']</x:if>
       <x:if test="not(@attr = 'x')">tr[@class='title' and position()
&gt; 1]</x:if>
     </x:attribute>
     <xsl:value-of select="foo"/>
     <!--whole bunch of other complicated stuff-->
   </xsl:template>
 </x:template>

Now, I know... it was already figured out that the use of the variable
within the match
attribute wasn't the problem in the first place... but,  I just thought
that this solution
might give some ideas of other ways that you could do this as well.  

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