Subject: Re: [xsl] Counting indent level From: Jonas Mellin <jonas.mellin@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:56:33 +0200 |
On 29/09/2008, at 11:38 AM, G. Ken Holman wrote:One advantage is that using the default processing engine in XSLT where rules are expressed in terms of templates are more robust, if the templates are properly defined, than for-each in terms of handling faulty but well-formed XML formatted data. In particular, omission of expected nodes (elements, attributes, etc.) can be handled. Note that by validating the XML formatted data, you can avoid such situations.
I've got some XML that contains a list of items and groups, and each group could contain either more items or more groups like so :
<catalog> <item /> <group> < group > < item /> < item /> < group > < group > < item /> etc
So groups can contain either items or more groups or nothing. Items only exist at the root (catalog) of this part of the tree or inside groups. I'm outputting a single list of all of the items and group currently using this :
<xsl:for-each select="item|descendant::group|descendant::group/item">
I expect you would have a more easily maintained stylesheet if you had:
This entire xslt file is pretty simple, it's basically just that one for each and produces a single list of elements. Is there any other advantages (other than easier maintenance) to use templates over the for-each?
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