Subject: Re: [xsl] best practices for using XSLT modes From: "Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 06:51:04 -0000 |
mode="gt0"/>Hi all, B B I imagine that, using XSLT modes is useful. I've been trying different XSLT approaches for solving a class of XML transformation problems.
Below is an example of what I've tried (I present an XML document, two different XSLT stylesheets [non schema aware] to process the XML document, and an identical transformation output with both the presented stylesheets):
XML document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> B B <a val="-1"/> B B <a val="-4"/> B B <a val="5"/> B B <a val="3"/> B B <a val="2"/> </root>
Stylesheet 1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" B B B B B B B B B B B B B version="3.0">
B B <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
B B <xsl:template match="root"> B B B B <result> B B B B B <xsl:apply-templates select="a[number(@val) gt 0]"
B B B B B <xsl:apply-templates select="a[number(@val) lt 0]"mode="lt0"/>
B B B B </result> B B </xsl:template>
B B <xsl:template match="a" mode="gt0"> B B B <val><xsl:value-of select="@val"/>: positive</val> B B </xsl:template>
B B <xsl:template match="a" mode="lt0"> B B B <val><xsl:value-of select="@val"/>: negative</val> B B </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Stylesheet 2:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" B B B B B B B B B B B B B version="3.0">
B B <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
B B <xsl:template match="root"> B B B B <result> B B B B B <xsl:apply-templates select="a[number(@val) gt 0]"/> B B B B B <xsl:apply-templates select="a[number(@val) lt 0]"/> B B B B </result> B B </xsl:template>
B B <xsl:template match="a[number(@val) gt 0]"> B B B <val><xsl:value-of select="@val"/>: positive</val> B B </xsl:template>
B B <xsl:template match="a[number(@val) lt 0]"> B B B <val><xsl:value-of select="@val"/>: negative</val> B B </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Both of above stylesheets, achieve the same thing and generate following output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <result> B B <val>5: positive</val> B B <val>3: positive</val> B B <val>2: positive</val> B B <val>-1: negative</val> B B <val>-4: negative</val> </result>
The intent of mentioned transformations, is that the result is little reorganization of the input.
My questions are following, Which of above mentioned XSLT transformations, is better over the other, particularly considering the use of modes (conceptually & possibly wrt to any other factors)?
That example seems to be too simple or artificial to show the value of modes. In general I think modes have their value if you need to process the same type of nodes twice e.g. once for generating a table of contents and the second time for splitting into result documents. Or, in the context of XSLT 3, if you need to separate processing steps working with streamed input nodes from ones using grounded ones.
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