RE: merging two templates with starts-with same name

I can not say I understand exactly what you are trying to achieve, 
perhaps you can supply an example of your xml and how you 
are calling each of the templates.

However, your consolidated template might look like:

<xsl:template match="*[substring(name(),1,5)='refDB']" mode="refDB">
  <xsl:param name="refDB"/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="normalize-space($refDB) != '' "><xsl:value-of select="$refDB"/></xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Regards
Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: "Braumüller, Hans" [mailto:H.Braumueller@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 April 2003 10:38
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  merging two templates with starts-with same name 


Hello friends,

small problem but i cannot get the solution

i have two similar templates:

<xsl:template match="refDB1" mode="refDB">
  <xsl:param name="refDB"/>
  <xsl:choose>
	<xsl:when test="normalize-space($refDB) != '' "><xsl:value-of select="$refDB"/></xsl:when>
	<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
 
  <xsl:template match="refDB2" mode="refDB">
  <xsl:param name="refDB" />
  <xsl:choose>
	<xsl:when test="normalize-space($refDB) != '' "><xsl:value-of select="$refDB"/></xsl:when>
	<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template> 

i am trying to do one for all nodes that starts-with refDB like pseudo-code:

<xsl:template match="*[name() = starts-with(refDB, *)]" mode="refDB">
    <xsl:param name="refDB" />
  <xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="normalize-space($refDB) != '' "><xsl:value-of select="$refDB"/></xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

As second optimization i am trying to figure out how i can select a variable instead a to pass a parameter with the selecting node, because i am matching node refDB1 on my properties.xml (over document() ) so i know that name to select it igual on my source.xml, where if it is empty or not exists, i output the value of my properties.xml.


Thanks,

 
Hans Braumüller 
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