RE: [xsl] Number of times apply-templates gets executed.

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Viral,

This is actually a pretty nice example of how XSL-think is different from 
the kind of thinking that is useful (and necessary) in procedural languages:

At 12:07 PM 1/7/2003, you wrote:
> So I was thinking that if I could test and see if the displayCommunity
> template got applied or not then that will tell me we found a record or not.
> But I am not sure how to determine how many times that template was applied
> or not.

Mmhm. In other words, you're asking for a side-effect (some kind of state 
that can tell you whether a given template was applied or not). But the 
same logic could be addressed by asking "does a matching record exist in 
the source?", and if not, outputting the error message.

This question is very easy to ask in XSLT. And notice it is actually a more 
straightforward question -- being a question about your data, not your 
process. It's a nice little lesson, especially for those just getting their 
feet wet with XSLT.

Please post again with a short example showing your source code, if you 
need more concrete suggestions.

Cheers,
Wendell



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