RE: <xsl:output method="xml"> and an if sentence to o

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Subject: RE: <xsl:output method="xml"> and an if sentence to output XML
From: "Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:16:59 +0000

Jacob, since you're generating HTML, just use output="html", or even output="xml". Also, tag-writing <xsl:text><</... is usually not a good idea, and is not needed when generating well-formed elements. Thus the following:


<xsl:template name="outline">
	<xsl:param name="title" />
	<xsl:text>&lt;dl&gt;</xsl:text>
		<xsl:text>&lt;dt&gt;</xsl:text>
		<xsl:value-of select="$title" />
		<xsl:text>&lt;/dt&gt;</xsl:text>
		<xsl:for-each select="outline">
			<xsl:choose>
				<xsl:when test="@this">&lt;dd class="active"&gt;</xsl:when>
				<xsl:otherwise>&lt;dd&gt;</xsl:otherwise>
			</xsl:choose>
			<xsl:text>&lt;a href="</xsl:text>
			<xsl:value-of select="@url" />
			<xsl:text>"&gt;</xsl:text>
			<xsl:value-of select="@title" />
			<xsl:text>&lt;/a&gt;</xsl:text>
			<xsl:text>&lt;/dd&gt;</xsl:text>
		</xsl:for-each>
	<xsl:text>&lt;dl&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

may be written more simply, and in more XSL-esque fashion as:

<xsl:template name="outline">
	<xsl:param name="title" />

	<dl>
       <xsl:value-of select="$title" />

<xsl:for-each select="outline"> <dd> <xsl:attribute name="class"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@this">active</xsl:when> </xsl:choose> </xsl:attribute> <a> <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="@url" /></xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="@title" /> </a> </dd> </xsl:for-each> </dl> </xsl:template>

Note containment of elements, and the use of <xsl:attribute/>

regards,

--A

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