RE: [xsl] <xsl:output method="xml"> and an if sentence to output XML

["Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacob, since you're generating HTML, just use output="html", or even 
output="xml".  Also, tag-writing <xsl:text>&lt;</... is usually not a good 
idea, and is not needed when generating well-formed elements.  Thus the 
following:

> <xsl:template name="outline">
> 	<xsl:param name="title" />
> 	<xsl:text>&lt;dl&gt;</xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:text>&lt;dt&gt;</xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="$title" />
> 		<xsl:text>&lt;/dt&gt;</xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:for-each select="outline">
> 			<xsl:choose>
> 				<xsl:when test="@this">&lt;dd class="active"&gt;</xsl:when>
> 				<xsl:otherwise>&lt;dd&gt;</xsl:otherwise>
> 			</xsl:choose>
> 			<xsl:text>&lt;a href="</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="@url" />
> 			<xsl:text>"&gt;</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="@title" />
> 			<xsl:text>&lt;/a&gt;</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:text>&lt;/dd&gt;</xsl:text>
> 		</xsl:for-each>
> 	<xsl:text>&lt;dl&gt;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>

may be written more simply, and in more XSL-esque fashion as:

<xsl:template name="outline">
	<xsl:param name="title" />

	<dl>
       <xsl:value-of select="$title" />

       <xsl:for-each select="outline">
           <dd>
               <xsl:attribute name="class">
                   <xsl:choose>
                       <xsl:when test="@this">active</xsl:when>
                   </xsl:choose>
               </xsl:attribute>
               <a>
                   <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="@url" 
/></xsl:attribute>
                   <xsl:value-of select="@title" />
               </a>
           </dd>
       </xsl:for-each>
   </dl>
</xsl:template>

Note containment of elements, and the use of <xsl:attribute/>

regards,

--A

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