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Subject: Re: [xsl] Problem with xsl:template using XSLT 1.0 From: Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:53:21 +0100 (CET) |
Scott Trenda wrote: Hi > That's a decent philosophy, but the real-world problem is > that you usually have large chunks of data within your > source document that you don't want in your output. First I didn't say that was THE answer. But that's a way of developing with XSLT that one doesn't have usualy when coming from imperative languages, and that helps to fight complexity. Of course the point is not to not control what the stylesheet does, but to define what it does in places that ease maintainability. > If you apply-templates to all children indiscriminately > when you only actually want to process a certain subset of > child nodes, then you have a high probability that the > built-in templates will catch that unwanted data, > resulting in unwanted text everywhere in your result, > interspersed with the text you did want. If the default template rules don't do what you want, don't use them. > Also, as I had said in the previous response, template > match patterns must be context-free. If you need to select > a node-set that requires a context, you're limited to > apply-templates. I must confess I don't understand this paragraph. Regards, --drkm _____________________________________________________________________________ Ne gardez plus qu'une seule adresse mail ! Copiez vos mails vers Yahoo! Mail
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