Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl:copy-of O.K. on RTF, but nothing on <EMPTY/> element content (?) From: "William Reilly" <wreilly@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 21:28:55 -0400 |
Many thanks, Mike, for helping confirm some assumptions. Yes, XSLT 2 ought to help re: RTF & Etc. (Your mentioning of looking out for xsl:key and recursion gives me more food for thought...) Thanks again for your responses. Best, William Reilly wreilly@xxxxxxxxxxx Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A. ============================================= Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 10:56:58 -0500 From: "Mike Haarman" <mhaarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:copy-of O.K. on RTF, but nothing on <EMPTY/> element content (?) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Reilly" <wreilly@xxxxxxxxxxx> > is there a string-based 'test' that would catch the (admittedly unusual) > > condition of EECO-NW? ("Empty Element Content Only - NO Whitespace") e.g. <markup><img src="pic.gif"/></markup> > > I think the answer is No. I think you're right. > have no content of string values, this is why no string test will find > anything there. > (And I guess you would only get at the attribute values if you > explicitly > ask for them (XPath ?) ?) Yup. > >> is it reasonable to assert that one can do without the use of > 'xsl:for-each select=', and can achieve everything one needs within > the 'select=' attribute of 'xsl:variable' and 'xsl:apply-templates' ? The question is more nuanced than that, but it is true that the moment I find myself nesting xsl:for-each I begin to wonder if I might be approaching the problem incorrectly and I look out for an opportunity to exploit recursion or key(). > If this assertion is (reasonably) the case, then I guess I can > (reasonably) > expect to be able to avoid creating variables by way of RTF, and can > make > them instead the preferred way of 'xsl:variable select=' statements. > Yes? > FWIW, XSL 2 proposes to eliminate the notion of an RTF altogether, IINM. hth, Mike XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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