Re: [xsl] Some Pointers on XSLT 2.0 vs. 1.0 and for Using XSLT 2.0 on the Web

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Jesse Heines wrote:

> I have been using XSLT 1.0 for many years to render Java Server  
> Pages on my
> website (http://teaching.cs.uml.edu/~heines) from data stored in XML  
> files.

I do this quite a bit. You would be much happier with JSP 2.0 with  
JSTL and the Expression Language. It is very XML friendly (and  
therefore XSL friendly).

Also, you could get rid of the font element with a simple (external)  
CSS style. JSTL has an XSL 1.0 like syntax. Expression language is  
somewhat similar to attribute value templates (but you can use them  
anywhere).

<div>
  <xsl:if test="$test=val">
    <xsl:attribute name="class">blah</xsl:attribute>
  </xsl:if>
</div>

The only clumsy thing at this point is because of danged SGML legacy  
things like checked=checked, selected=selected. What I do is generate  
these into the JSP like so:

<input type="radio"
  name="bar"
  value="foo${obj.bar='foo' ? '& quot; checked=& quot;checked' : ''}"/>

Ugly, but at least you can generate it from one place in the XSL and  
not have to write it for each input.

best,
-Rob