Re: [xsl] choose/when question

[Jo Bourne <venus@xxxxxxxxx>]

thank heaps Jeni!

At 10:26 AM +0100 22/8/01, Jeni Tennison wrote:
>Hi Jo,
>
>> the result of the two when statements are identical, it is only the
>> otherwise that has different behaviour. I am wondering if it would
>> have any noticible effect on performance to combine the two when
>> statements into one? and if it would how would i do this? is like
>> this:
>
>It probably wouldn't have any noticeable effect on performance, but it
>would make your stylesheet more maintainable. You can combine the two
>conditions with an 'or', as follows:
>
>  <xsl:choose>
>    <xsl:when test="@number = 'one' or @number = 'two'">
>      ...
>    </xsl:when>
>    <xsl:otherwise>
>      ...
>    </xsl:otherwise>
>  </xsl:choose>
>
>There's no simple way of checking whether the value of @number is in a
>list in the way that you tried, although you could hold them in some
>XML and test against that, or you could do something like:
>
>  contains(':one:two:', concat(':', @number, ':'))
>
>The separate tests are probably clearer unless you have a large number
>of possible values.
>
>I hope that helps,
>
>Jeni
>
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>Jeni Tennison
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>
>
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