Re: A question of style

On 7/7/2010 5:54 PM, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> I definitely prefer using the concat() function than a sequence of
> alternating <xsl:text> and <xsl:value-of>.
>
> concat() is more or less the equivalent of prinf() in C or
> string.format() in C#. We don't have control characters like \n or \t,
> but this can easily be circumvented by using either variables (in XSLT
> 1.0) or character-maps in XSLT 2.0.
>
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>
> *Even better*, one can use a separate "fill-in the blanks" XML
> document in which only specific elements need to be transformed into
> result values.
>
> This is a good technique which completely separates presentation from
> processing and allows that different "layouts" be filled-in by
> different transformations or the results of the same transformation be
> presented in different layouts.
>
> I believe this is probably one of the most important piece of
> knowledge that I have shared with our fellows XSLT developers in the
> course of many years.
>   

Dmitri,
I could only partly understand what you're describing. Have you written
an article on it somewhere that you could link to? with examples?

Thanks,
Lars