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RE: Can XSL recognize IE5 versus Netscape?
- To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
- Subject: RE: Can XSL recognize IE5 versus Netscape?
- From: Tony Graham <tgraham at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:38:22 -0400 (EST)
- References: <33DDC954510AD411B46400A0C9C732D6048EBC@exch-klip.btg.com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
At 10 May 2000 15:01 -0400, Medina, Edward wrote:
> Hey Tony, why did you do this?
>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <msxsl:choose>
> <msxsl:when test=".">
> </msxsl:when>
> <msxsl:otherwise>
> <p>Vendor: <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor')"/>
> <br/>Vendor URL:
> <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor-url')"/></p>
> </msxsl:otherwise>
> </msxsl:choose>
> </xsl:otherwise>
When running on IE5, the XSL processor pays attention to the elements
with the "msxsl" prefix. When it does so, it will never get to the
<msxsl:otherwise> element, so the <p> literal result element and the
second versions of the "Vendor: " and "Vendor URL:" literal text will
not be added to the result tree.
> Why not just
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <msxsl:if test=".">
> </msxsl:if>
> <p>Vendor: <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor')"/>
> <br/>Vendor URL:
> <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor-url')"/></p>
> </xsl:otherwise>
This will get you an unwanted copy of the "Vendor: " and "Vendor URL:"
literal text.
> Wouldn't that be the the same, every time your test is true it
> will do nothing and then continue?
The real reason was that I couldn't come up with a "test" attribute
value that was always false according to the IE5 XSL processor. I was
in a hurry, so after I tried a few things that didn't work (and got
errors about requiring a DOM node), I fell back to testing "." and
using <msxsl:otherwise> inside <msxsl:choose> for the false case.
I did mention when I posted the stylesheet to the list that I was
looking for suggestions for improvement. Now you know why.
Regards,
Tony Graham
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