Re: [xsl] Shorthand.

[Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh believe me nobody is more aware of the limitations of XSL 1.0 than
I am. However, I'm not going to move my web application from Classic
ASP to .NET to use Saxon (much as I despise 1.0).

Yeah, my template works perfectly fine but I was just hoping for
something more akin a 1.0 version of Angela's 2.0 solution, for pure
style and type-ability reasons. If I could just magically go:

<xsl:ajaxLink link='Click Me' href='process.asp' />

I'd be thrilled!

I can't really use apply-templates (a la Grand Mr. Welch) because I'm
not transforming links with XSL, I'm generating them.

-S

On 7/25/07, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of the drawbacks of using XSLT 1.0 is its verbosity. If you are
> using this server side, you can replace your XSLT processor with an XSLT
> 2.0 compliant one (there's a .NET version of Saxon and Gestalt
> available, and a recent mail on this list revealed that the AltovaXML
> (free, contains xslt 2.0 compliant processor) can also be called from
> .NET apps).
>
> If you can't upgrade for any reason (though only few reasons should
> exist against upgrading ;)  and when you locked yourself in with MSXML
> anyway, you can use JScript for any functions you would like to create.
>
> Your example does not enlighten what was unclear from your first
> examples: why you actually need a named template. The way you show it
> above perfectly fits for inlining. It depends on the way you pass the
> parameters, or how you organized the rest of your stylesheet whether you
> need the verbosity of named templates and/or with-params or not.
>
> On the other side, this *is* the way to create function-like behavior,
> but be aware of the pitfall to use it too often and make your stylesheet
> look as if you wrote an imperative / procedural program (meaning: in
> many occasions, named templates can be replaced by matching templates,
> possibly with modes).
>
> The only way to really help you here, is when you show more about the
> context how you are using it.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Abel Braaksma