On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:48:42PM -0500, James Eberhardt wrote:
> As far as I know, the name attribute value can not be a variable (for
> apply-templates or call-template). This is according to the XSL spec.
Thanks, appreciate the confirmation.
> If you have a limited number of templates you could call, you should use a
> <xsl:choose> statement. It's a bit more verbose, but it will get the job
> done.
Yes, it's working rather nicely, I'm only affraid what will happen
when I hit hundreds of various call-templates. To explain, where I'm
heading: I'm trying to stack stylesheets, and would like to pass
names of templates as parameters to lower level templates, something
like
higher level XSLT:
<!-- list of invoices is to be displayed as dotted list -->
<xsl:template match="invoice_list">
<xsl:call-template name="dotted_list">
<xsl:with-param name="what">invoice</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<!-- and here's how invoice looks like -->
<xsl:template match="invoice">
some processing of invoice data
</xsl:template>
lower level XSLT, included from the above:
<!-- dotted list just makes the dots and for the rest
(the content) calls the $what template -->
<xsl:template name="dotted_list">
<xsl:param name="what"/>
<UL>
<xsl:for-each select="row">
<LI>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$what='invoice'">
<xsl:call-template name="invoice"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$what='person'">
<xsl:call-template name="person"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$what='address'">
<xsl:call-template name="address"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</LI>
</xsl:for-each>
</UL>
</xsl:template>
and when I decide the lower level presentation should be changed to
something else than <UL><LI /></UL>, I'd feed Sablotron different file
with different definition of "dotted_list".
The <xsl:choose> is probably the best I can get.
Yours,
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