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Re: [xsl] fallback parameter

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There's in light! Ok, I must admit, I feel a bit ashamed not to have
seen this. It seems to be a typical beginner's mistake to try every
ugly hack to make a thing worked as  planned and to overlook all the
other simple options at the same time!

Thanks a lot guys!

--jan


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:37:17 -0700, James A. Robinson
<jimr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sorry that I can't directly answer your question but I don't
> understand the logic you are trying to lay out in your <xsl:if> test.
> I understand what you want to do, I just don't see how you can accomplish
> what you want. The reason is that, as far as I knew, when you have a
> template matching BlogInfo, every single BlogInfo is going to be tested
> and so as long as your default language exists it will always be true.
> Forgive me if that's a stupid statement on my part. :(
> 
> I was hoping the stylesheet below might be of help?  It shows a simpler
> logic flow, where at the top level, the BlogInfos level, you decide which
> BlogInfo to display.  I don't know what constraints you are working under
> w/re to the template matches, but I would hope you could make use of this.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
> 
>   <xsl:param name="selectedLanguage" select="'de'"/>
>   <xsl:param name="defaultLanguage" select="'en'"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="BlogInfos">
>     <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="./BlogInfo[@lang=$selectedLanguage]">
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="BlogInfo[@lang=$selectedLanguage]"/>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="BlogInfo[@lang=$defaultLanguage]"/>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="BlogInfo">
>     <div id="IntroDiv">
>       <h1>
>         <xsl:value-of select="Title"/>
>       </h1>
>       <p>
>         <xsl:value-of select="Description"/>
>       </p>
>     </div>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
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Jan
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