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cutlass wrote: > > hello all, > > any ideas on selecting nodes based on the 2 following conditions being met > > a) existance of lang attribute is boolean false ( in other words when > there is no explicit lang attribute select it as a default) > > if a) is TRUE then > > b) presence of lang="en" is boolean true ( the 'en' would be supplied by > a xsl:param) > > a solution at the top level of xsl would be most desirable with an > xsl:param setting the desired language to extract ............ so far > i've got lots of methods, > just can't find anything elegant enough to apply to a larger system for > multilingual support. any comments or pointers with how people are > approaching multilingual xml/xsl..greatly appreciated. > Hi Cutlass, I couldn't get entirely top level because you can't put variables in the predicates of match expressions in templates, but you could do something like this: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:param name="lang">en</xsl:param> <xsl:template match="test"> <xsl:if test="not(@xml:lang) or @xml:lang=$lang"> <xsl:value-of select="node()"/> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> (If you *could* put variables in template match expressions it would just be: <xsl:template match="test[not(@xml:lang) or @xml:lang=$lang]"> and no xsl:if required) Francis. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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