My fault, language abuse here.
You sould have read templates.
Thanks for your help that is very valuable.

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> Olivier MATROT wrote:
>
>> One last question : Could we use a function to translate ? This will 
>> eliminate the need to copy strings for each attribute I would like to 
>> process.
>
> I am not sure I understand what you are looking for. Standard XSLT 1.0 
> does not allow you to define your own functions. All you can do is write 
> named templates and call them with xsl:call-template.
> With XSLT 2.0 you have much more power, first it allows you to use 
> variables in match patterns (meaning my first suggestion would work), 
> secondly it has functions 'upper-case' and 'lower-case' so you don't need 
> the cumbersome 'translate' function, and furthermore you can define your 
> own functions in stylesheets.
> Microsoft does not have an XSLT 2.0 processor but there are other 
> implementations around, one being Saxon (currently version 9) from 
> <URL:http://saxon.sourceforge.net/> which has both a Java and a .NET 
> version.
>
>
> With XSLT 1.0 instead of doing e.g.
>
>   <xsl:template match="User/@advancedViewing[translate(., 
> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz') = 'vrai']">
>     <xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
>        <xsl:text>true</xsl:text>
>     </xsl:attribute>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="User/@advancedViewing[translate(., 
> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz') = 'faux']">
>     <xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
>        <xsl:text>false</xsl:text>
>     </xsl:attribute>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> you might prefer one template
>
>   <xsl:param name="ul"
>     select="'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'"/>
>   <xsl:param name="ll"
>     select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'"/>
>
>   <xsl:template match="User/@advancedViewing">
>     <xsl:variable name="lvalue" select="translate(., $ul, $ll)"/>
>     <xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
>       <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="$lvalue = 'vraix'">
>           <xsl:text>true</xsl:text>
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:when test="$lvalue = 'faux'">
>           <xsl:text>false</xsl:text>
>         </xsl:when>
>       </xsl:choose>
>     </xsl:attribute>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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