Re: XSL Beginners question

[David_N_Bertoni]

This is a question for a general XSL list like the Mulberry list.  For more
information see:

   http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/index.html

A couple of hints:

   1. _Never_ use xsl:text with disable-output-escaping to generate
   elements in the result tree.  Use xsl:element, or literal result
   elements instead.

   2. Consider multiple templates with specific match patterns.

   Examples:

     <xsl:template match="attribute[@name='objectname']">
         <Kurztitel><xsl:value-of select="."/></Kurztitel>
     </xsl:template>

     <xsl:template match="attribute[@name='thema']">
         <xsl:element name="Thema"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:element>
     </xsl:template>

Dave




                    Carsten Heyl

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                    07/12/2001

                    11:09 AM

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Hi XSL-Experts!

I'm having a very simple structured part of a bigger XML Document:

<tag1>
<pbobjects>
<pbobject>
<attributes>
<attribute name="version">JFIF 1.02</attribute>
<attribute name="id">36200</attribute>
<attribute name="bylinetitle"></attribute>
<attribute name="specialinstructions"></attribute>
<attribute name="comment"></attribute>
<attribute name="credit"></attribute>
<attribute name="byline"></attribute>

...

<attribute name="application">Photoshop 3.0</attribute>
<attribute name="keywords"></attribute>
<attribute name="mode"></attribute>
<attribute name="unit">1</attribute>
... about 100 attributes
</attributes>
</pbobject>
<pbobject>
<attributes>
...
</attributes>
</pbobject>
...
</pbobjects>
</tag1>

Now I want to print out and convert only a few of that attributes (using
special formatting for some)
and came to the following:

<xsl:template match="attribute">
 <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="@name='objectname'">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> &lt;Kurztitel>
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="@name='thema'">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> &lt;Thema>
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="@name='supplementalcategory'">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> &lt;ThemaBildnachw>
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
   </xsl:when>
... (for all attributes I want)
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

I guess there is a much simpler and faster alternative than that.
Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Carsten Heyl

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