Symphony.

I'm making a slideshow and want to wrap each entire slide with a conditional anchor link (this is now cool with W3C in HTML5, by the way)

This is what I've done: ` <![CDATA[ ">

`

In these initial stage sof getting to know XSLT, I always wonder if there's a quicker/cleverer/more elegant way to do things. It does work, but can it be improved upon?

Right. Sorry, but I think I broke the page with my first code paste. Can't seem to edit the posts now either! I was under the false impression that you used ` to insert code.

I would't create tags in <xsl:text> elements. It's there to output text :-)

I'd create a template to create the general html output for a slideshow item, and separate wrapper templates that apply this template. Like

<xsl:template match="slideshow/item">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="output"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="slideshow/item[url != '']">
    <a href="{url}">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="output"/>
    </a>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="slideshow/item" mode="output">
    <div class="slideshow-item">
        ...
    </div>
</xsl:template>

(Markdown uses ` for inline code and indentation for code blocks.)

Hi Jonas,

I would't create tags in elements. It's there to output text :-)

Yeah, I was thinking that my solution was a bit dodgy. Yours, however is exactly the sort of elegance I was looking for. Thank you!

(and also for the markdown tips)