Re: need help with converting attribute into elements

Hi,
thanx for your time. Your solution is now clear for me.
Now I know I was right: there is no easy way. I gues there are some things
XSLT can't do.
So thanx again.

Ales Peregrin

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From: "Rod Humphris - FLPTN" <rod.humphris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Code nested choose/when/otherwise blocks to cover all the combinations
that
> you want to catch. It isn't pretty but it will work. Copy/paste will get
you
> there fast enough!
>
> <xsl:template match="text">
>  <p>
>   <xsl:choose>
>    <xsl:when test="@bold='true'">
>     <b>
>      <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="@italic='true'">
>        <i>
>         <xsl:choose>
>           <xsl:when test="@underline='true'">
>            <u>
>             <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>           </u>
>          <xsl:otherwise>
>           <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>         </xsl:otherwise>
>        </xsl:choose>
>        </i>
>        </xsl:when>
>        <xsl:otherwise>
>         etc, etc....
>     </b>
>    </xsl:when>
>    <xsl:otherwise>
>
>    </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
>  </p>
> </xsl:template>
> There you are I've basically done it for you, just fill in the missing
bits.
>
> I can't myself think of a better way. I think perhaps that sometimes xslt
> just is verbose and this may be one of them.
>
> The best I can suggest is that you could write the code inside a named
> template (look it up if you don't know) which takes an element as a
> parameter and then at least you won't have to write it again and you can
use
> it on other elements besides a 'text' one. You could then
xsl:include/import
> it from a library xslt to make it more reusable again.
>
> Ah just saw Jarno's. Much better. Take your pick.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rod
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleš Peregrin [mailto:ales.peregrin@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 October 2003 10:49
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>
>
> Hi Rod,
>
> thanx for your solution suggestion.
> I'm not sure, wheter I understand it right. Does it mean to write it eight
> times, once for each combinatoion of the atribute values, e.g. first for
> "all true", than <otherwise> one of them false and so on? Or is there some
> easier way? Could you please
> write some more detailed example?
>
> thanx
>
> Ales Peregrin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rod Humphris - FLPTN" <rod.humphris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> > Hi Ales
> >
> > I expect someone could suggest a prettier and more modular approach but
> > nested choose blocks would do it:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="text">
> >  <p>
> >   <xsl:choose>
> >    <xsl:when test="@bold='true'">
> >     <b>
> >      <xsl:choose>
> >       <xsl:when test="@italic='true'">
> >        <i>
> >          etc, etc.....
> >     </b>
> >    </xsl:when>
> >    <xsl:otherwise>
> >
> >    </xsl:otherwise>
> >   </xsl:choose>
> >  </p>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Rod
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aleš Peregrin [mailto:ales.peregrin@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 14 October 2003 09:47
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> > Subject: RE: [xsl] need help with converting attribute into elements
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> > I'm trying to make a XSLT stylexheet for transforming XML document into
> HTML
> > and there is a problem I'm unable to solve, even after a week of trying
> and
> > searching all over the internet. The problem looks quite easy to me and
it
> > seems I'm missing something important about XSL  language. Here it goes:
> >
> > I have an XML tag which looks like this: <text bold=true italic=true
> > underline=false>Help!</text>
> > In this case, the result in HTML should be:
> > <font>
> >    <b>
> >       <i>
> >          Help!
> >       </i>
> >    </b>
> > </font>
> >
> > I simply need to transform the attributes into HTML elements so that any
> of
> > the possible combinations of the atributes' values would be transformed
> > correctly.
> >
> > Can anyone help me?
> > Thanx.
> > Ales Peregrin
> >
> >
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