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oberlies
oberlies

Reputation: 11723

Can I use the curly brace syntax to concatenate the text of a text node in XSL

I only recently learned about the curly brace syntax in XSLT, which allows to specify an XPath expression where a string is expected, and its usefulness to concatenate strings.

So, in my XSLT, I replaced all instances of

<entry>
    <xsl:attribute name="id" select="concat(@artifactId, '-', @version, '.zip')" />
</entry>

with the much shorter

<entry id="{@artifactId}-{@version}.zip" />

So far so good. But now I was wondering if I could use the same syntax to concatenate the text for a text node.

Example:

<sourceLocation>
    <xsl:value-of select="concat($baseURL, '/artifacts/', @artifactId, '-', @version, '.zip')" />
</sourceLocation>

Is there a way to generate this text node using the curly brace syntax instead of concat in standard XSLT 2.0?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 444

Answers (2)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167696

No, not in XSLT 1.0 or 2.0, XSLT 3.0 allows it however, with a setting http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#text-value-templates, and some implementation like Saxon 9.5 PE or EE already support that:

<sourceLocation>{$baseURL}/artifacts/{@artifactId}-{@version}.zip</sourceLocation>

Upvotes: 1

Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts

Reputation: 122394

Not in XSLT 2.0, but it will be possible in XSLT 3.0, where the syntax is referred to as "text value templates" (akin to attribute value templates).

Upvotes: 1

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