Re: [xsl] looking for a visually clean way to enable/disable templates

["David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<xsl:template use-when=" $do.this.thing" match="element">

David

On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 18:25, Chris Papademetrious
christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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>
> Given a template with a predicate structure:
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> <xsl:template match="element[blah blah[blah]
>
>                          [blah blah]]
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>                        [blah blah[blah]
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>                          [blah blah]]
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>                        [blah blah blah]">
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>
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> I would like to enable or disable the template with a parameter:
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> <xsl:param name="do.this.thing" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>
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> I tried adding an enabling-variable predicate at the beginning or end, but
> it seems to get visually lost:
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> <xsl:template match="element[$do.this.thing]
>
>                        [blah blah[blah]
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>                          [blah blah]]
>
>                        [blah blah[blah]
>
>                          [blah blah]]
>
>                        [blah blah blah]">
>
>
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> <xsl:template match="element[blah blah[blah]
>
>                          [blah blah]]
>
>                        [blah blah[blah]
>
>                          [blah blah]]
>
>                        [blah blah blah]
>
>                        [$do.this.thing]">
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>
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> I also tried adding the enabling-variable predicate to the root element,
> which visually separates it a bit better:
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> <xsl:template match="/*[$do.this.thing]//
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>                        element[blah blah[blah]
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>                            [blah blah]]
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>                          [blah blah[blah]
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>                            [blah blah]]
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>                          [blah blah blah]">
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> My actual stylesheet has multiple features, each feature enabled by its
> own parameter, each parameter enabling its own set of templates. Does
> anyone have a favorite way of enabling/disabling templates in a way that
> does not get lost in the match expression?
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>
> Thank you!
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>
>
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