Subject: Re: [xsl] A question of style From: Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:39:34 -0500 |
On 7/7/2010 5:54 PM, Dimitre Novatchev wrote: > I definitely prefer using the concat() function than a sequence of > alternating <xsl:text> and <xsl:value-of>. > > concat() is more or less the equivalent of prinf() in C or > string.format() in C#. We don't have control characters like \n or \t, > but this can easily be circumvented by using either variables (in XSLT > 1.0) or character-maps in XSLT 2.0. > > ================= > > *Even better*, one can use a separate "fill-in the blanks" XML > document in which only specific elements need to be transformed into > result values. > > This is a good technique which completely separates presentation from > processing and allows that different "layouts" be filled-in by > different transformations or the results of the same transformation be > presented in different layouts. > > I believe this is probably one of the most important piece of > knowledge that I have shared with our fellows XSLT developers in the > course of many years. > Dmitri, I could only partly understand what you're describing. Have you written an article on it somewhere that you could link to? with examples? Thanks, Lars
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