Re: [XSL] Two "Philisophical" questions about the lan

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Subject: Re: [XSL] Two "Philisophical" questions about the language
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:34:31 -0500

At 2009-01-17 12:23 +0100, Alain wrote:

First one
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We've got an instruction :
<xsl:if>
But this instruction has no <xsl:else> as any other language I've used.

XSLT was designed for use with XSL-FO, and it is very often the case that you want to add something to the result tree or add nothing. XSL-FO has 270 differently-named attributes ... adding some on a condition is very common.

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My second one might be easier!
Let's say I have an XML like this
<?xml version="1.0">
<root>
 
</root>
As a valid XML document can have only one "main" node,

Called the "document element".

what is the architectural and practical difference between

<xsl:template select="/">

and

<xsl:template select="/root">

First, it would be match="/" and match="/root", and needing to match on the document node is important to access the XML prologue and any content after the document element in the instance:

<?xml version="1.0">
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="over-there.xsl">
<?owner jsmith>
<root>
</root>
<!--copyright notice here-->

The root node in the above document has 4 child nodes.

At the moment:
- they do the exact same thing

False.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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[XSL] Two "Philisophical" questions about the language Alain - 17 Jan 2009 11:23:39 -0000 G. Ken Holman - 17 Jan 2009 11:35:31 -0000 <= Mukul Gandhi - 18 Jan 2009 13:39:23 -0000 David Carlisle - 18 Jan 2009 13:53:35 -0000 Mukul Gandhi - 18 Jan 2009 13:58:02 -0000 Message not available G. Ken Holman - 19 Jan 2009 01:10:37 -0000

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