Re: Getting error message - Open quote is expected for Choose statement

On Fri, May 02 2008 14:55:45 +0100, jean.stachler@crown.com wrote:
...
> Below is an excerpt of the code that I have, this is the error statement in
> the Java debugger:
>
> 		Open quote is expected for attribute "holdnum" associated with an  element
> type  "xsl:when".
...
>               <!--At this point want to check the value of the holdnum
> variable
>                if the value is equal to 1, than do this part otherwise go on
> down
>                to the next when statement and check if it matches, if it
> does, execute,
>                else go to the next statement.-->
> 
>      <xsl:variable name= "holdnum"    select="numitemtotal" />
>      <xsl:choose>
>          <xsl:when holdnum = '1' >

<xsl:when test="$holdnum = 1">

where:

 - The 'test' attribute has the XPath expression to be evaluated.

 - The '$' is required for the variable reference.

 - Quoting the '1' isn't strictly necessary since it can be evaluated as
   a number.  Evaluating it as a string as you have done may be
   infinitesimally faster since it would save doing two conversions.

 - You could just as easily do "numitemtotal = 1"

 - There are almost certainly ways of doing what you want without state
   variables and without repeating so much FO markup.  For example
   (untested):

   <xsl:variable name="cell1">
     <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="numitemtotal = 1">
         <xsl:value-of select="header/column9"/>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:when test="numitemtotal = 2">
         <xsl:value-of select="header/column19"/>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:value-of select="header/column39"/>
       </xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:variable>

   <xsl:variable name="cell2">
     <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="numitemtotal = 1">
         <xsl:value-of select="header/column10"/>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:when test="numitemtotal = 2">
         <xsl:value-of select="header/column20"/>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:value-of select="header/column40"/>
       </xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:variable>

   <fo:table-row >
     <fo:table-cell  border="solid black 0.5px"
        empty-cells="hide">
        <fo:block >
           <xsl:value-of select="$cell1"/>
        </fo:block>                   
      </fo:table-cell>
      <fo:table-cell  border="solid black 0.5px"
        empty-cells="hide">
        <fo:block>
          <xsl:value-of select="$cell2"/>
        </fo:block>                      
      </fo:table-cell>                                      
    </fo:table-row>             

Regards,


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