[xsl] Best way to create a "dictionary"/"map"/"something"

[Antonio Fiol <fiol@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Here is the idea: In french, dates are written as DD MMMM YYYY. So, I 
have an element with the parameters day, month and year (as numbers, 
from 1 to whatever) and my named template "from-to" should output 
something like "du 3 février 2001 au 6 octobre 2002" being "du" and "au" 
the french words for "from" and "to".

So, my template looks like this:

<xsl:template name="from-to">
  du
  <xsl:value-of select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='start']/@day" />
  <xsl:call-template name="month">
      <xsl:with-param name="month" 
select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='start']/@month" />
  </xsl:call-template> <xsl:value-of 
select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='start']/@year" />
  au
  <xsl:value-of select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='end']/@day" />
  <xsl:call-template name="month">
      <xsl:with-param name="month" 
select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='end']/@month" />
  </xsl:call-template>
  <xsl:value-of select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='end']/@year" />
</xsl:template>

And here is what I use to map numbers to their corresponding texts.

<xsl:template name="month">
 <xsl:param name="month" />
 <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="$month=1">janvier</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=2">février</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=3">mars</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=4">avril</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=5">mai</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=6">juin</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=7">juillet</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=8">août</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=9">septembre</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=10">octobre</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=11">novembre</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$month=12">décembre</xsl:when>
 </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Even if this looks as a date formatting problem, it is not. I have other 
"dictionaries" like the following:

<xsl:template name="access-mode">
 <xsl:param name="bps"/>
 <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=3600">Modem 28K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=4200">Modem 33K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=7075">Modem 56K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=8000">RNIS 64K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=16000">RNIS 128K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=32000">ADSL 256K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=64000">ADSL 512K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=96000">Cable 768K</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=128000">ADSL 1M</xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$bps=256000">ADSL 2M</xsl:when>
 </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Is this the best solution?
Is there a better one?

N.B. All the options are known when I write the XSL file.


Thank you very much.


Antonio Fiol


XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list