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At 05:56 AM 8/31/2007, David replied to Andrew:
I agree this is preferable if only for reasons of clarity, and am glad to hear no one complain that it is unacceptably inefficient. :->
In XSLT 2.0 I'm starting to use exists(foo[2]) just since in my experience so many beginners just stumble over the nodeset-as-boolean test for existence. (And so many maintenance programmers are beginners! Tell me why that is.) So I might just excuse myself for "exists(foo[2]) and not(foo[3])", even though a beginner would probably guess what it does correctly and be wrong about why.
Of Abel's menagerie of equivalents -- all I can say is to agree with how remarkable the range of alternatives is. (As for the brain-teaser -- when would it ever select anything?)
Re: [xsl] Multiple elements condition
Subject: Re: [xsl] Multiple elements condition From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:37:25 -0400 |
Hi,
At 05:56 AM 8/31/2007, David replied to Andrew:
> I think there might be a rule here of "code the obvious"
yes actually I need the construct quite often in the day job and what we seem to have mostly is
foo[2] and not(foo[3])
which I think is reasonably clear and likely to be as efficient as anything.
I agree this is preferable if only for reasons of clarity, and am glad to hear no one complain that it is unacceptably inefficient. :->
In XSLT 2.0 I'm starting to use exists(foo[2]) just since in my experience so many beginners just stumble over the nodeset-as-boolean test for existence. (And so many maintenance programmers are beginners! Tell me why that is.) So I might just excuse myself for "exists(foo[2]) and not(foo[3])", even though a beginner would probably guess what it does correctly and be wrong about why.
Of Abel's menagerie of equivalents -- all I can say is to agree with how remarkable the range of alternatives is. (As for the brain-teaser -- when would it ever select anything?)
Cheers, Wendell
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