Question

Hi is there away on how to declare a link(ie:http://www.google.com) as a variable and then using the variable for an else if?Something like this?

   <xsl:element name="a"> 
<xsl:attribute name="href">http://www.google.com</xsl:attribute>// first get the link
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="http://www.google.com">
  Do something 1
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
  Do something 2
</xsl:choose> 
</xsl:element>

Is this possible?What should i be looking at?

Answer 1

is there away on how to declare a
link(ie:http://www.google.com) as a
variable and then using the variable
for an else if?

Use this code as a working example — of course you need to learn at least the basics of XSLT:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

 <xsl:variable name="vLink" select="'http://www.google.com'"/>

 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$vLink = 'http://www.google.com'">
      It is the Google link...
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
     It is not (exactly) the Google link...
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when this transformation is applied on any XML document (not used), the wanted result is produced:

  It is the Google link...

One can also use a global <xsl:param>. This can be set externally by the invoker of the transformation.