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Re: Set variable via contents of <variable> element

Subject: Re: Set variable via contents of <variable> element
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:41:00 GMT
Re:  Set variable via contents of <variable> element
It depends if you are using xslt1 or 2.

In XSLT1 if you use content then you always generate a result tree
fragment (essentially a new node set, together with a restriction that
it may not be queried with xpath).
So then if you want to do a conditional you have to use the contition in
xpath, since xpath1 doesn't have if then else you have to be a bit
creative eg

<xsl:variable name="x"
   select="this[some predicate] | orthis[not(some predicate)]"/>

so although formally this is a union, only one of the branches is ever
non empty so really it is a conditional.

In xpath2 you could write that as



<xsl:variable name="x"
   select="if (some predicate) this else  orthis"/>

or, if you prefer

<xsl:variable name="x" as="element()*">
<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="some predicate">
    <xsl:sequence select="this"/>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:sequence select="orthis"/>
  </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

David



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