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Re: Detecting presence of attributes
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Detecting presence of attributes
- From: Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril dot ie>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:07:57 +2400
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At Monday, 5 February 2001, you wrote:
>> I think translate SP to "," might also do it.
>
>It depends what you want to do. If you just want to put them out
as text,
Yep, and you can guess why :-)
>but if you want to process each one, get its associated URI etc, you'll
>need to recurse.
>
>But you should think of recursive templates are a pleasure, not
a chore,
>otherwise you'll never get on with XSLT.
Oh I get on just fine with XSLT. I just keep on bumping into stuff
that I expect
to work (because its equivalent in SGML software has worked for a
decade)
and not unnaturally the fullness of XML and XSLT has not been grokked
yet.
>It could be worse: \ifcat#1=10 \foo\expandafter\else\bar\expandafter\fi
>to use an idiom in a language we both know well...
You know what I miss from XML? CONREF :-)
///Peter
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