Re: flatten tree

ok, I think I got it right now, more or less

I now have 2 xslt files, one imports the other and so on... sorry for
the lengthy fuzz, earlier.

but still I am not seeing through entirely and it does'nt work as
expected, still.

*[@lang = $selectedLanguage or (not(@lang) and $defaultLanguage =
$selectedLanguage)]

selects every element which lang attribute is set to the
selectedLanguage or every element which has no lang attribute whenever
the selectedLanguage matches the defaultLanguage. right?

this is why, i get the right result whenever
selectedLanguage=defaultLanguage. When this is not the case I get
nothing. hmm. strange.

so i tried
*[@lang = $selectedLanguage or (not(@lang) or @lang = $defaultLanguage)]

but this is the same as I had before, without the xsl chain
transformation. unfortunately (in this case) the transformer does not
stop if the first condition is met and so i get the element in the
selected language as well the element in the default language.

so i tried
	<xsl:template match="*">
		<xsl:choose>
			<xsl:when test="(@lang = $selectedLanguage) or (not(@lang))">
				<xsl:apply-imports/>
			</xsl:when>
			<xsl:otherwise>
				<xsl:if test="@lang = $defaultLanguage">
					<xsl:apply-imports/>
				</xsl:if>
			</xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:template>
which is not very beautiful, but still, out of reasons i do not
understand, it seems that the otherwise clause gets executed, even
when the when-clause returns true.

so I am really stuck here. any help is gladly appreciated!

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cheers
jan