Re: Using XSLT to add markup to a document

Hi Wendell,

> You could optimize further by removing the call
>
> <xsl:call-template name="markup">
>    <xsl:with-param name="text"
>      select="substring-before($text, 'document')" />
> </xsl:call-template>
>
> since we know that this string won't have the target string in it.

Ahh, but you only know that it won't have the string 'document' in it;
you don't know whether it will have the string 'markup' in it. On the
other hand, you can change:

  <xsl:call-template name="markup">
    <xsl:with-param name="text"
      select="substring-before($text, 'markup')" />
  </xsl:call-template>

to:

  <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text)" />

since you know that there won't be either 'document' or 'markup' in
that string (but then you have to be careful during maintenance if you
add another word to your list of replacements).

Cheers,

Jeni

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