Re: [xsl] Shorter rewrite

[Antonio Fiol Bonnín <fiol@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joeri Belis wrote:

> This code snipped tests for the presence of the 'text' attribute and then
> chooses to copy all the attributes or all except ss:Formula.
> My question is can this be written in a shorter verion. Direct in the
> copy-of selection.
Yes. It would however be less readable.

<xsl:copy-of select="@*[name() != 'ss:Formula'  or 
$node_detlijn[$node_position]/@type = 'text']" />

Not tested. Maybe it works, maybe not. Hope that helps.

However, where do you have tour type attribute? Is it on the same 
element as the ss:Formula attribute? If so, you can use ../@type instead 
of the longer thing you used.

> I find i need alot of 'choose' statements and this feels like overhead of an
> inexperienced coder.
But this will also be easier to understand if someone (maybe yourself) 
reads the code in 6 months...
If you use very compact forms, I urge you to comment on them.


Yours,


Antonio Fiol



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