Re: [xsl] Combining call-template with attribute value templates

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frans,

Of course, "clean" and "beautiful" are difficult to define in a way that 
doesn't come down to something subjective. (But see Christopher Alexander's 
recent work. :-)

In any case, short of XSLT 2.0 I'd probably do:

<xsl:variable name="resultURI">
  <xsl:text>http://example.com/</xsl:text>
  <xsl:call-template name="fullName" />
</xsl:variable>

<a href="{str:encode-uri($resultURI))}" >
  <xsl:value-of select="r:testee/r:name"/>
</a>

which is almost what you had.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 02:10 PM 2/9/2005, you wrote:

> I find the following code XSLT code clumsy:
>
>            <xsl:variable name="resultPath">
>                 <xsl:call-template name="fullName" />
>             </xsl:variable>
>
>             <a href="{str:encode-uri(concat( 'http://example.com/',
>                 $resultPath, r:testee/r:name ))}" >
>                 <xsl:value-of select="r:testee/r:name"/>
>             </a>
>
> In other words, I dynamically create the href attribute with an attribute
> value template, which among other things contains the return value of the
> fullName template.
>
> What I found clumsy, is that the only reason I use the xsl:variable is that I
> can't squeeze in the template call into the attr val template. Or how is this
> possible?
>
> Another way could be to use an xsl:attribute construct:
>
> <a>
>         <xsl:attribute name="href">
>                 http://example.com/
>                 <xsl:call-template name="fullName" />
>                 <xsl:value-of select="r:testee/r:name" />
>         </xsl:attribute>
> </a>
>
> I find it a /bit/ cleaner, but it has one big problem: the content isn't run
> through str:encode-uri().
>
> Any ideas? How would you write my initial code snippet in the cleanest, most
> beautiful way while staying functionally equivalent?



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