Subject: Re: [xsl] choose/when question From: Jo Bourne <venus@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:17:26 +1000 |
thank heaps Jeni! At 10:26 AM +0100 22/8/01, Jeni Tennison wrote: >Hi Jo, > >> the result of the two when statements are identical, it is only the >> otherwise that has different behaviour. I am wondering if it would >> have any noticible effect on performance to combine the two when >> statements into one? and if it would how would i do this? is like >> this: > >It probably wouldn't have any noticeable effect on performance, but it >would make your stylesheet more maintainable. You can combine the two >conditions with an 'or', as follows: > > <xsl:choose> > <xsl:when test="@number = 'one' or @number = 'two'"> > ... > </xsl:when> > <xsl:otherwise> > ... > </xsl:otherwise> > </xsl:choose> > >There's no simple way of checking whether the value of @number is in a >list in the way that you tried, although you could hold them in some >XML and test against that, or you could do something like: > > contains(':one:two:', concat(':', @number, ':')) > >The separate tests are probably clearer unless you have a large number >of possible values. > >I hope that helps, > >Jeni > >--- >Jeni Tennison >http://www.jenitennison.com/ > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list -- Jo Bourne Virtual Artists Pty Ltd XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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