Re: taking a literal or a attribute value

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Subject: Re: taking a literal or a attribute value
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 13:23:00 -0400

Florian,

This hardly counts as "nice"...

<element attribute="{concat(@width, substring('100%',1,boolean(@width)*4))}">

but it should work (untested though).

If you wanted to parameterize '100%' you could use

concat(@width, substring($value,1,boolean(@width)*string-length($value)))

If you do this, write a comment to explain it for the next poor soul who has to reach into your code. :->

Me, I'm going off line for a few days ... and there may be more elegant solutions.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 11:01 AM 5/26/2003, you wrote:

i would like to set a xml element attribute to the value of
an currently processed element or a literal.
i could do it for sure like

<xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@width"><xsl:value-of select="@width" /></xsl:when> <xsl:othrwise>100%</xsl:othrwise> </xsl:choose>
i just wonder if there are any nice xpaths ways to make
this more simple..


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