Hi Gents

I'm kinda new to XSLT and have a few (probably easy) questions...

Background: Im building a vb.net app that builds classes according to a template (xslt) and in doing so needs some tricky tweaking.

Question:

Can you in XSLT create your own functions? Ie. send a variable to an xslt function that returns a result after some computation...

Basically a similar piece of code will occur throughout and the last thing I want to do is code it again and again in various places...

Thanks

Yes!

1. For "Functions" in vb.net you can use

The below xsl statements are recursive templates just like finding a factorial of a given number in VB/VB.net

<xsl:call-template name="Print">
      <xsl:with-param name="i" select="'10'"/>


</xsl:call-template

<xsl:template name="Print">
 <xsl:param name="i"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="$i"/><br/>
<xsl:if test="$i &lt; 10">

     <xsl:call-template name="Print">
          <xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i"/>

      </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

2. for "select case" statements

   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="$i=1">
         <xsl:value-of select="you have entered number 1"/>
     </xsl:when>


     <xsl:when test="$i=2">
         <xsl:value-of select="you have entered number 3"/>
    </xsl:when>

     <xsl:when test="$i=3">
         <xsl:value-of select="you have entered number 3"/>
     </xsl:when>

     <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:value-of select="you have entered number 0 or greater then 3"/>


  </xsl:otherwise>



    </xsl:choose>

Hi Raman

That is brilliant thanks so much. Should meet my needs perfectly. I presume that the <xsl:template name="Print"> etc... will just sit within the template/file that I am working in? And then when I call it the response would go directly into where i called it from? So somthing like...

some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some
<xsl:call-template name="Print">
      <xsl:with-param name="i" select="'10'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla

Would become...


some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some
<result>
code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla some code some code some code bla bla bla

? Make sence? Or would I have to use another command to use the result of the function?

Thanks again :P

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