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At 2012-06-23 16:40 -0400, John A. Walsh wrote:
Which would be the same as:
<xsl:template match="pets/animal[normalize-space(species) = 'fish']"/>
... which might be easier for someone maintaining the stylesheet to understand.
Of course the processor may optimize both expressions to be the same executing code, but from a maintenance perspective, keeping expressions simpler would have more benefit.
I hope this is helpful.
. . . . . . . . Ken
Re: [xsl] Xpath Syntax Issue
Subject: Re: [xsl] Xpath Syntax Issue From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:05:32 -0300 |
At 2012-06-23 16:40 -0400, John A. Walsh wrote:
This seems to work:
<xsl:template match="pets/animal[species[normalize-space(.) = 'fish']]"/>
Which would be the same as:
<xsl:template match="pets/animal[normalize-space(species) = 'fish']"/>
... which might be easier for someone maintaining the stylesheet to understand.
Of course the processor may optimize both expressions to be the same executing code, but from a maintenance perspective, keeping expressions simpler would have more benefit.
I hope this is helpful.
. . . . . . . . Ken
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