June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
986 pages
27h 8m
English
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Name
<xsl:otherwise>
Defines the else or
default case in an <xsl:choose> element. This element
always appears inside an <xsl:choose> element, and it must
always appear last.
Category
Subinstruction (<xsl:otherwise> always appears as part
of an <xsl:choose>
element).
Required Attributes
None.
Optional Attributes
None.
Content
A template.
Appears in
The <xsl:choose>
element.
Defined in
[1.0] XSLT section 9.2, “Conditional
Processing with xsl:choose.”
[2.0] XSLT section 8.2, “Conditional
Processing with xsl:choose.”
Example
Here’s an example that uses <xsl:choose> to select the background
and foreground colors for the rows of an HTML table. We cycle among
four different values, using <xsl:otherwise> to determine the
default value of the style
attribute in the generated HTML document. Here’s the XML document
we’ll use:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- albums.xml -->
<list xml:lang="en">
<title>Albums I've bought recently:</title>
<listitem>The Sacred Art of Dub</listitem>
<listitem>Only the Poor Man Feel It</listitem>
<listitem>Excitable Boy</listitem>
<listitem xml:lang="sw">Aki Special</listitem>
<listitem xml:lang="en_GB">Combat Rock</listitem>
<listitem xml:lang="zu">Talking Timbuktu</listitem>
<listitem xml:lang="jz">The Birth of the Cool</listitem>
</list>And here’s our stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- otherwise.xsl --> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title> <xsl:value-of select="list/title"/> ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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