XSLT Cookbook

Including Embedded Unit Test Data in Utility Stylesheets

Problem

You want to package tests with your utility stylesheets so they can verified at any time.

Solution

The following stylesheet is meant to be included as a utility. However, this example provides the capability of testing the stylesheet by executing it as its own input document:

<!-- math.max.xslt --> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:math="http://www.exslt.org/math" exclude-result-prefixes="math" xmlns:test="http://www.ora.com/XSLTCookbook/test" id="math:math.max"> <xsl:template name="math:max"> <xsl:param name="nodes" select="/.."/> <xsl:param name="max"/> <xsl:variable name="count" select="count($nodes)"/> <xsl:variable name="aNode" select="$nodes[ceiling($count div 2)]"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="not($count)"> <xsl:value-of select="number($max)"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="number($aNode) != number($aNode)"> <xsl:value-of select="number($aNode)"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:call-template name="math:max"> <xsl:with-param name="nodes" select="$nodes[not(. &lt;= number($aNode))]"/> <xsl:with-param name="max"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="not($max) or $aNode > $max"> <xsl:value-of select="$aNode"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="$max"/> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:with-param> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> <!-- TEST CODE: DO NOT REMOVE! --> <xsl:template match="/xsl:stylesheet[@id='math:math.max'] ...