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| <s1 title="<xsl:if>"> |
| |
| <s2 title="Contents"> |
| <ul> |
| <li><link anchor="functionality">Functionality</link></li> |
| <li><link anchor="implementation">Implementation</link></li> |
| </ul> |
| </s2> |
| |
| <anchor name="functionality"/> |
| <s2 title="Functionality"> |
| |
| <p>This element is cruical to XSL processing, but still very simple both in |
| its use and implementation. The element is used like this:</p><source> |
| <xsl:if test="contains($the-world,'Elvis')"> |
| <xsl:message>Elvis is still alive!</xsl:message> |
| </xsl:if></source> |
| |
| <p>The element's contents will only be executed if the test succeeds. There |
| is no <code><xsl:else></code> element. One has to use either several |
| <code><xsl:if></code>-elements or use a choose-element.</p> |
| |
| </s2> |
| |
| <anchor name="implementation"/> |
| <s2 title="Implementation"> |
| |
| <p>The basic implementation is very simple:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>execute the expression from the 'test'-attribute</li> |
| <li>evaluate the resulting boolean value</li> |
| <li>ignore the element contents if the value is 'false'</li> |
| <li>otherwise execute the element contents</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>There is onle type of function call that makes this a bit more complicated. |
| The <code>function-available()</code> and <code>element-available()</code> |
| function calls can be used to test for extension elements and functions. A |
| very common use for these is to encapsulate all references to extension |
| elements inside an <code><xsl:if></code> element and test for the |
| existance of this element before attempting to use it. XSLTC has to support |
| this. Otherwise we may risk either outputting erronuous error or warning |
| messages about acessing non-existing elements, or even worse, compiling in |
| calls to non-existing methods in the translet, causing the JVM's verifier to |
| prevent the translet from being loaded.</p> |
| |
| <p>The <code>function-available()</code> and <code>element-available()</code> |
| functions have been updated to perform an evaluation at compile-time, so that |
| the <code>If</code> class can know wether to compile in calls to extensions or |
| not. This is possible because both functions take only literal expressions as |
| parameters. See the <code>getResult()</code> methods of the |
| <code>FunctionAvailableCall</code> and <code>ElementAvailableCall</code> |
| classes for details.</p> |
| |
| </s2> |
| |
| </s1> |