[oXygen-user] code template for identity transform

Lars Huttar
Thu Jun 17 06:58:28 CDT 2010


How about "idt" as a name, mnemonic with "identity transform" (or
"identity template"). That would be easily discoverable from the content
completion list, and would not conflict with "id" for id attributes.

Lars


On 6/17/2010 12:28 AM, Jarno Elovirta wrote:
> I disagree here, "id" is a named template I use on almost all of my
> projects and it's always to do with id attributes, never identity
> trasform templates. I personally favor "copy" name for those. Thus I
> think the code template should remain unnamed by default.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jarno
>
>
> On 2010-6-13 15:16, "Lars Huttar" <> wrote:
>
>     Thank you for this. I am glad but not very surprised to see Oxygen
>     already offers this... it usually has everything that would be
>     commonly useful!
>
>     The only thing I see lacking here is discoverability. Next time I
>     go to use this pattern, if it's not soon, I'm not sure how I will
>     remember to use "ct", as I do not remember hearing "copy template"
>     or "recursive copy template" as a term for the pattern.
>     Is it a well-known term? I've only heard of it as the "identity
>     transformation". E.g. at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#copying it is
>     referred to that way; and a yahoo search for xslt "identity
>     transform" gives me about 100x as many results as for xslt
>     "recursive copy template". (xslt "copy template" gives about 20x,
>     but with many false positives.)
>
>     Would it be reasonable to add "id" as a name for this code template?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Lars
>
>     On 6/12/2010 2:14 PM, George Cristian Bina wrote:
>
>         Dear Lars,
>          
>         There is already a code template that inserts the recursive
>         copy template. Its name is "ct" so if you type
>          
>         ct
>         then CTRL+Enter
>         you should get
>          
>           <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
>             <xsl:copy>
>               <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
>             </xsl:copy>
>           </xsl:template>
>          
>         Best Regards,
>         George
>
>
>
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