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Old August 1st, 2007, 03:35 AM
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in my code I have alot of template calls that look the same, but with different parameters.
is there a way to re-write it, so the code will look nicer and readable?
for example - calling the same templates with same parameters but different values.

<xsl:call-template name="common-time-display">
    <xsl:with-param name="v2" select="'total-time-display'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="display" select="/etd/counters/counter/display/@sum-format"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="baseline_column_key" select="'TT_BL'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="baseline_column_display" select="'!~stationTech!~-TT_BL'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_column_key" select="'TT'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_column_display" select="'!~stationTech!~-TT'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_baseline_template_key" select="concat(@dbcolumn, '_BL')"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_baseline_template_display" select="concat('!~stationTech!~-', @dbcolumn, '_BL')"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="flag" select="'total'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="common-time-display">
    <xsl:with-param name="v2" select="'average-time-display'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="display" select="/etd/counters/counter/display/@avg-format"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="baseline_column_key" select="'AVG_TT_BL'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="baseline_column_display" select="'!~stationTech!~-AVG_TT_BL'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_column_key" select="'AVG_TT'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_column_display" select="'!~stationTech!~-AVG_TT'"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_baseline_template_key" select="concat('AVG_', @dbcolumn, '_BL')"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="tooltip_baseline_template_display" select="concat('!~stationTech!~-', 'AVG_', @dbcolumn, '_BL')"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="flag" select="'avg'"/>
</xsl:call-template>

hope that I was clear enough.
Thanks
Kfir

 
Old August 1st, 2007, 03:53 AM
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You could try passing a single parameter which is an XML fragment containing all the information needed. However, you're limited because in XSLT 1.0 you can't address inside a result-tree-fragment without the xx:node-set() extension.

This does seem a surprisingly large number of parameters. Also, most of them seem to vary between the two calls only by the prefixing of "AVG_" to the value. This suggests that there is some refactoring possible.

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what kind of refactoring did you had in mind?
since all the parameters are different, even though they have AVG_.
do you maybe have an example?

 
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I wouldn't attempt a refactoring without knowing a lot more about the application as a whole. But when I see two bits of code as similar as the two you showed, and especially if there were several more that followed the same pattern, then I would be looking for another layer of template that takes fewer parameters.

However, XSLT 1.0 is always going to be verbose, there's no way around it. Move to 2.0 if you can.

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