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I have to work with XSL templates again and in addition to XML being a terrible language to write any kind of code in I found this anti-pattern.
If you want to output a few attributes with little or not text in between, please refrain from
<xsl:value-of select="@type"/> <xsl:value-of select="@lfd"/> - <xsl:value-of select="@key"/>: <xsl:value-of select="@value"/>
and use concat instead
<xsl:value-of select="concat(@type, ' ', @lfd, ' - ', @key, ': ', @value, ' ')"/>
Why? Less code[1], easier to read, no problems with whitespaces in your result document.
For further reading I found XSLT Best practices fairly informative. Are there any other good compilations of XSL best practices?
[1] before anyone starts argueing that it’s not much of a difference, I just removed examples with 8 calls to xsl:value-of…
