Subject: RE: Avoiding multiple "apply-templates" by creating one variable for the clauses. Is it possible?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:33:02 -0400
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Hi,
Another approach altogether is to "push" the logic through templates:
<xsl:templates select="//blog"/>
... and then ...
<xsl:template match="blog[$AuthorId][not(author_id=$AuthorId)]"
priority="2.1"/>
<xsl:template match="blog[$CategoryId][not(category_id=$CategoryId)]"
priority="2.2"/>
<xsl:template match="blog">... process any blogs that fall through
...</xsl:template>
Note:
1. I've used the long logic here (not Ken's more succinct version),
since in the world I work in, articles can have multiple authors and
categories. (Dunno about your blogs.)
2. The explicit priority settings are to guard against multiple
templates matching.
3. The approach only works if $AuthorId and $CategoryId are globally
scoped. (And in 2.0 where you can use them in matches.)
4. In general, opinions vary on whether this is more or less legible
and maintainable.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 01:18 PM 8/20/2009, Mike wrote:
> >
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="//blog
> > [not($AuthorId) or (author_id = $AuthorId)]
> > [not($CategoryId) or (category_id =
$CategoryId)]
> > "/>
>
> I guess I'll finally drop in and add another suggestion since
> I've been waiting for one of my XSLT students to bring it up
> but I don't see any of them doing so.
>
> If you are looking for compactness, I believe the above
> expression can be reduced to the following in both XSLT 1.0
> and XSLT 2.0:
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//blog
> [not($AuthorId != author_id)]
> [not($CategoryId != $CategoryId)]
> "/>
>
I'm not convinced about this equivalence. If $AuthorId is "Mike", and
author_id is an empty sequence, then
(a) not($AuthorId) or (author_id = $AuthorId) ==> false
(b) not($AuthorId != author_id) ==> true
So if the optimizer does this conversion for you, it's wrong!
But it's probably safe if author_id will always be a singleton node-set.
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