Re: [xsl] A beef with XSLT Sometimes too complicated

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following XPath 1.0 expression generates one out of two given
strings depending on a condition:

concat(
substring(Str1,1 div Cond),
substring(Str2,1 div not(Cond))
      )

David Carlisle (or Jeny?) AFAIK was the first to propose the same or
similar trick with substring() and infinity -- I tried in vain to find
it in a few minutes  -- could someone, please, point to it?


--
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
---------------------------------------
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.





On 7/13/06, Karl Stubsjoen <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok,
> So I love XSLT, 100% but I do have this beef, some syntax is too complicated!
> Classic example, setting a variable:
>
> <xsl:variable name="bg_img">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="normalize-space($all_vars)=''">
> <xsl:text>background_bright</xsl:text>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:text>background_faded</xsl:text>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> Is there a cleaner / simpler way to do this?  Any chance you can do
> this in one line?
>
> Karl..