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Subject: Re: Can a single XPath statement duplicate the functionality of this verbose <xsl:choose> statement?
From: "Mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:06:43 -0700

Hi Andrew,
All of your recommendations made sense to me except this one:

- instead of xsl:value-of use xsl:apply-templates

I have been seeing "value-of" as a kind of "literal print" into the result document. How could "apply-templates" be substituted for it?

Mark

-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Welch Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 3:55 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Can a single XPath statement duplicate the functionality of this verbose statement?

On 24 October 2011 11:31, Mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for this additional information. I am still trying to learn to view
problems from a non-C++ perspective. Makes my head hurt :-)


No worries... the whole template matching process takes a while to
get, it did for me anyway.

A general guide is:

- don't use xsl:for-each, use xsl:apply-templates

- don't use named templates, use xsl:apply-templates with a mode

- if a template just contains a choose/when, separate out the branches
into individual templates

- instead of xsl:value-of use xsl:apply-templates

- one large template is bad, lots of specific small templates is good.

--
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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Re: Can a single XPath statement duplicate the functionality of this verbose <xsl:choose> statement?, (continued)
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