FAQ#27 basically suggest breaking down <xsl:variable name="XX" 
select="someXpath"> into <xsl:variable name="XX"><xsl:value-of 
select="someXpath"></xsl:variable> and that'll make my code clumsy.

Even worse, I just found that <xsl:value-of> converts the results to 
strings, which screws up boolean variables.

Is there any way that I can still define a variable conditionally yet the 
result doesn't have to be converted to strings?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Hoi





"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> Hoi Wong wrote:
>> I was trying to conditionally define a bunch of global variable but turns 
>> out that I'm stuck with FAQ#27 in this page:
>> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N8090.html
>>
>> What it says is that I have to select the value inside variable 
>> definition, instead of assigning different values to a variable depending 
>> on the conditions.
>>
>> However, I have 40 variables that needs to be defined base on 3 logical 
>> cases (<xsl:choose>). Doing so will make my XSLT scripts unreadable and 
>> there's a lot of typing. Is there any other way round?
>
> I am not completely sure I understand your problem. If you want to define 
> variable values based on certain conditions and you want to avoid 
> repeating code then consider to put the code into a function (XSLT/XPath 
> 2.0) or a template (XSLT/XPath 1.0 and 2.0).
>
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/