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Re: [xsl] When to use conditional constructions?

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Sure, this can be done.

And for if .. then .. else :

( exprResultIf [condition],  exprResultElse [not(condition)] )  [1]

I believe it should be possible to write a tool that takes as input a
given XSLT transformation (and as part of this a given XPath
expression) and converts it to equivalent code, in which any
conditionals are eliminated.

We could also add a good code-formatter that takes the output of the
first tool and converts it to "well-formatted code".

The last tool should be highly configurable, as there are different tastes.


Cheers,
Dimitre

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex
<gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 30.03.2014 18:11, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
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>> I believe it is impossible to eliminate "if-expressions" in XPath
>> because we don't have templates there. It's a pity.
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> Does this qualify for an if-expression-less syntax?
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> let $a:=4
> return ('result1'[$a=1], 'result2'[false()], 'result3'[4=$a],
> 'result4'[true()])[1]
> b 'result3'
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