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At 03:55 AM 2/7/02, Joerg wrote:
> Is there a way doing something like: > <xsl:choose> > <xsl:when test="@type='101'|'102'|'103'|'104'..."> > .. > </xsl:choose> > > If this is not possible, is there another way of achieving the same result? > There are many values that - in this part of the stylesheet - yields the > same function, so it is quite cumbersome writing all those "or @type=". Joerg is correct, but the problem can be eased (in XSLT 1.0) by using a "lookup table" pattern, as in <my:valuelist xmlns:my="http://somenamespace.com"> <v>101</v> <v>103</v> <v>107</v> <v>201</v> <v>xxx</v> <v>whee!</v> <v>too many values</v> <v>to list in an 'or' sequence</v> </my:valuelist> <xsl:variable name="values" select="document('')/*/my:valuelist/v"/>
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unless you use it more than once -->and then... <xsl:when test="@type=$values"> which works by the rule that an equality expression comparing a string to a node set is true if the string equals one of the strings in the node set. While not always worth it, when the value list is really long this can ease both code readability and maintenance. Cheers, Wendell
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