Re: [xsl] "if-condition-return something" idiom : is it possible in XSLT ?

["Kerry, Richard richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Have you considered using xsl:choose?

Yes - ish.
The conditions are functions and may not be independent (they aren't), and
there are more calculations done between each one than I've shown here.  I
tend to view (*) xsl:choose as similar to C's "switch", which needs to do a
single calculation to work out which branch to run.  As I am working through a
relatively complex conversion and testing process I'm not sure I can make it
work.  I will have another look.

Appreciatively,
Richard.


(*)  I may well be wrong in this.....

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From: Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx
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Sent: 16 June 2014 13:21
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Subject: Re: [xsl] "if-condition-return something" idiom : is it possible in
XSLT ?

Have you considered using xsl:choose?

On 16.06.2014 14:17, Kerry, Richard richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> In C/C++ programming the following idiom is quite common:
>
> if (condition1)
>    return value1;
>
> if (condition2)
>    return value2;
>
> if (condition3)
>    return value3;
>
> return value4;
>
> In other words each of these will test a condition and if it is satisfied
execution will stop and some value will be returned to the caller.  The run
stops with the first condition that succeeds.
>
> I've tried to do something similar in XSLT and am getting somewhat
contradictory indications of whether or not it is working.  Please can someone
advise whether this should work, or if there is a similar form that I can
use.
>
> What I have is like the following template, to be called by name.
>
> <xsl:template name="test.1">
>    <xsl:param name="string" select="''"/>
>
>     <xsl:if test="$check.1 = 0">
>       <xsl:value-of select="$value.1" />
>     </xsl:if>
>
>     <xsl:if test="$check.2 = 0">
>       <xsl:value-of select="$value.2" />
>     </xsl:if>
>
>     <xsl:if test="$check.3 = 0">
>       <xsl:value-of select="$value.3" />
>     </xsl:if>
>
>    <xsl:value-of select="$value.4" />
> </xsl:template>
>
> My theory of why it might work is based on knowing that the following will
work:
>
> <xsl:template name="test.2">
>    <xsl:param name="string" select="''"/>
>
>    <xsl:value-of select="$value.4" />
> </xsl:template>
>
> I say "will work" in the sense that if the above template is called (by
name) it will return the value from value.4.  What I'm not sure of is whether
that should work if the "returning" value-of is a level down, in an xsl:if, as
in the other template (test.1).
> It is only a theory of why it might work.  Practice may indicate otherwise,
and somewhere in the spec might be a reason.
>
> Can someone please advise whether I can do this, or how to get broadly
equivalent behaviour ?
>
> Regards,
> Richard.
>
>
>
> Richard Kerry
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