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Johnny
Johnny

Reputation: 71

Apply-templates

This is the code I have:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <Segment ID="{name()}">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat(., ' ')"/>
  </Segment>    
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*" mode="break">
  <Segment ID="{name()}">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </Segment>
  <Segment>#$NL</Segment>
</xsl:template>

Is there a way to call the first template inside the second template so that I don't have to repeat the code? Something like this:

<xsl:template match="*" mode="break">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
  <Segment>#$NL</Segment>
</xsl:template>

I use * here and it doesn't work. I tried @* and / but nothing works. The goal is for me to call it like this: 

<xsl:apply-templates select="FirstName"/>

or 

<xsl:apply-templates select="Name" mode="break"/>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (2)

Hew Wolff
Hew Wolff

Reputation: 1509

If you use xsl:call-template rather than xsl:apply-templates, you can set up a named template and then call it whenever you need it.

If I understand your question correctly, the repeated code is a Segment element with specified ID attribute and inner text string. So you can give this template those two parameters, and specify them when you call it. Like this:

<xsl:template name="segment">
   <xsl:param name="id"/>
   <xsl:param name="text"/>
   <Segment ID="{$id}">
      <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
   </Segment>    
</xsl:template>

...
   <xsl:call-template name="segment">
      <xsl:with-param name="id" select="name(.)"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="text" select="."/>
   </xsl:call-template>

Upvotes: 1

JLRishe
JLRishe

Reputation: 101652

You can simply replace the two templates you showed us with these two:

<xsl:template match="*" name="Segment">
  <Segment ID="{name()}">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat(., ' ')"/>
  </Segment>    
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*" mode="break">
  <xsl:call-template name="Segment" />
  <Segment>#$NL</Segment>
</xsl:template>

I can see that in your original XSLT, the first template was concatenating a space onto the value, and the second wasn't. With the above approach, the space will be appended in both cases. Is that satisfactory for your requirements?

Upvotes: 1

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