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On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 18:24 +0000, David Birnbaum djbpitt@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Dear Syd (cc xsl-list), > > Thanks for the quick response. As you note, the actual main template > does a > lot of things that are common to all types before it gets to the > <xsl:choose>, and if I write completely separate templates for each > of the > types, I would need to repeat that shared code verbatim in each of > the > type-specific templates. Maybe write a function that returns a map containing the variables, so instead of $socksize you'd write, $metadata?socksize or whatever. Call that at the start of the template. Now you have only one line, and you can use next-match with a parameter. Or lots of templates, but each calling that common function at the start. Or you can invert it and have 30 lines of preamble and then call a function. It's possible to make a map (or array) whose entries are functions, so another possibility is a table-driven approach, where you look up in a table some combination of values and call the function that's listed there. Liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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