Subject: RE: [xsl] Can I use a boolean variable in an xsl:if test From: JBryant@xxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:11:35 -0600 |
> My guess is that newbies imagine xsl:value-of to be > some kind of "evaluate" function. Of course what it > really is, is an instruction to write a string to a > result tree (to "the" result tree or to a > result-tree-fragment, as the case may be). Since this > is generally what we want to have happen to our > results, there seems to be nothing to get confused > about. > > Until it breaks, that is, because we're not writing it > out, but doing something else with it instead. Like > testing whether it's true, while imagining we're > testing the expression that was evaluated for it. I find that I stay out of hot water with xsl:value-of if I just remember that it returns a string. If I use xsl:value-of on a string, I get a string. If I use xsl:value-of on a node, I get a string representation of that node. Either way, though, I get a string. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)
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