Re: [xsl] A question of style

Subject: Re: [xsl] A question of style
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:27 -0700
Yes, this is it.

One minor (or very important ??) addition is that the
fill-in-the-blanks document is provided as a parameter:

  <xsl:param name="pLayout"/>

and the transformation is applied on

  document($pLayout)


As I have already said, this gives us complete separation of
processing and presentation. The stylesheet has absolutely no
knowledge what is the final output that will be produced, and this
will be different on different applications of the transformation.

On the other side, any modifications can be made to the stylesheet
without affecting at all any of the layouts.


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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I'll have a guess....
>
> Instead of concat() or:
>
> <xsl:text>This is a </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$var1"/>
> <xsl:text> example</xsl:text>
>
> with <xsl:variable name="var" select="'fill in the blanks'"/>
>
> you could do
>
> <xsl:variable name="content">This is a <var1> example</xsl:variable>
>
> with <xsl:apply-templates select="$content"/>
>
> and <xsl:template match="var1">fill in the blanks</xsl:template> B (and
> the identity template)
>
> The latter being more flexible.
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
>
> On 27 July 2010 19:12, Whitney, Dan (Canwest Digital Media)
> <DWhitney@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Dimitre,
>>
>> I know you said that you'd post an example, so some very, very gently
prodding, I too would be very interested in an example of what you mean by
"fill-in-the-blanks".
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:37 AM
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [xsl] A question of style
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Lars,
>>
>> I will find time during the next days to post a simple example.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Dimitre Novatchev
>> ---------------------------------------
>> Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
>> ---------------------------------------
>> To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk
>> -------------------------------------
>> Never fight an inanimate object
>> -------------------------------------
>> You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what
>> you're doing is work or play
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
> Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

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