Re: workaround for XSLT 1.0 result tree fragment usage

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Subject: Re: workaround for XSLT 1.0 result tree fragment usage?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:31:32 -0500

Don,

In addition to using an extension function to cast the result tree fragment into a node set, another solution is also sometimes possible, since while RTFs can't be interrogated as node-sets, they can be processed as strings.

So if you built your variable like this:

<active>true</active>
<active>true</active>
<active>false</active>

you could simply test "not(contains($confirm_active_program,'true'))" and that would work.

Of course this doesn't scale to more complex situations, but it's good enough for many simple ones.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 09:53 AM 12/19/2007, you wrote:

I know the real answer to my question is to move to
XSLT 2.0, but for the sake of workplace harmony I'm
making other efforts as well.

Using XSLT 1.0 and MSXML I've run into the limitation
of an improper use of a result tree fragment. I'm
creating a variable, "confirm_active_program" that
contains some number of <program> elements like so:

<program active="true"/>
<program active="false"/>

I then have a choose statement which contains a when
test:

<xsl:when
test="not($confirm_active_program/program[@active =
'true'])">...</xsl:when>

The only error I'm getting is that the expression
requires a node-set. Going back and reading on RTFs in
1.0 I realize this isn't going to work. Is there any
other way to accomplish my desired effect in 1.0?

Thanks,

Don

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Re: workaround for XSLT 1.0 result tree fragment usage?, (continued) Martin Honnen - 19 Dec 2007 15:10:03 -0000 Dimitre Novatchev - 19 Dec 2007 16:13:46 -0000 Don Smith - 19 Dec 2007 17:40:50 -0000 Andrew Welch - 19 Dec 2007 15:10:25 -0000 Wendell Piez - 19 Dec 2007 17:32:17 -0000 <= Don Smith - 19 Dec 2007 17:40:05 -0000

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