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Best way to create a "dictionary"/"map"/"something"
- From: Antonio Fiol <fiol at w3ping dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:19:47 +0200
- Subject: [xsl] Best way to create a "dictionary"/"map"/"something"
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Hello,
Here is the idea: In french, dates are written as DD MMMM YYYY. So, I
have an element with the parameters day, month and year (as numbers,
from 1 to whatever) and my named template "from-to" should output
something like "du 3 février 2001 au 6 octobre 2002" being "du" and "au"
the french words for "from" and "to".
So, my template looks like this:
<xsl:template name="from-to">
du
<xsl:value-of select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='start']/@day" />
<xsl:call-template name="month">
<xsl:with-param name="month"
select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='start']/@month" />
</xsl:call-template> <xsl:value-of
select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='start']/@year" />
au
<xsl:value-of select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='end']/@day" />
<xsl:call-template name="month">
<xsl:with-param name="month"
select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='end']/@month" />
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:value-of select="/doc/generator/dateform[@prefix='end']/@year" />
</xsl:template>
And here is what I use to map numbers to their corresponding texts.
<xsl:template name="month">
<xsl:param name="month" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$month=1">janvier</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=2">février</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=3">mars</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=4">avril</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=5">mai</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=6">juin</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=7">juillet</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=8">août</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=9">septembre</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=10">octobre</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=11">novembre</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month=12">décembre</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Even if this looks as a date formatting problem, it is not. I have other
"dictionaries" like the following:
<xsl:template name="access-mode">
<xsl:param name="bps"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$bps=3600">Modem 28K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=4200">Modem 33K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=7075">Modem 56K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=8000">RNIS 64K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=16000">RNIS 128K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=32000">ADSL 256K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=64000">ADSL 512K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=96000">Cable 768K</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=128000">ADSL 1M</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$bps=256000">ADSL 2M</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Is this the best solution?
Is there a better one?
N.B. All the options are known when I write the XSL file.
Thank you very much.
Antonio Fiol
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