Re: [xsl] How should I handle very similar templates ? Inserting a string into a match spec ?

["Richard Kerry richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this.  I am using SaxonHE 9; I believe that gives me XSLT 3.  I
will investigate the options given.

Regards,
Richard.



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Am 4/20/2023 um 1:48 PM schrieb Richard Kerry
richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx<mailto:richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx>:

Applying these two will remove all Release elements, and all mentions of Debug
from remaining elements.
I have another stylesheet that does the opposite, ie delete Debug elements and
Release attributes.

What I'd like to do is pass the keywords in as parameters; something like
bbbbbb<xsl:template match="*[ @Condition =
'''$(Configuration)''==''{$delete-element-name}|Win32''' ]" />

bbbbbb<xsl:template match="@Condition[ .=
'''$(Configuration)''==''{$delete-attribute-name}|Win32''' ]" />

with appropriate variables or parameters declared.  I tried a couple of
variants of the above, to no avail.
But I'm not even sure if this is possible.  Is it?  If it is possible but I
need to approach it differently, please can someone advise.


With XSLT 1.0 / XSLT 1.0 processors you are not allowed to use variable or
parameter references inside match patterns, if I recollect that correctly.



Which XSLT version/processor are you using? For XSLT 3 it seems like your code
should using shadow attributes and static params e.g. <xsl:template _match="*[
@Condition = '''$(Configuration)''==''{$delete-element-name}|Win32''' ]" /> if
you declare <xsl:param name="delete-element-name" as="xs:string" static="yes"
select="'Release'"/>.



Otherwise you need to use string concatenation e.g.

  <xsl:template match="*[ @Condition = '''$(Configuration)''=='''
||$delete-element-name || '|Win32''' ]" />
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