Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… If you’ve been following this series, you’ve seen me write about the ddwrt namespace functions multiple times. They are extremely helpful functions that really aren’t documented in any formal way. A few of them show up in the XPath Expression Builder, but most of them are a mystery unless you find Serge…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… In the last article, I talked about teasing out the various parts of the values in Person or Group column values. To do this, I relied on the substring functions which are available to us in XSL. In this article, I’ll go over a few of those string functions and show you…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… As I got into writing this “last” article in the series, I realized that between the things people have asked me over the course of the series and the things I think might be useful, I have far more than one more article to write. I think I’ll keep this series going…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:value-of> Outputs the value to which it evaluates, whether it be the value of a column, a variable, etc. <xsl:value-of> is sort of the “biggie” XSL tag. It’s what you use to output values of things that are variable. Pretty much every other tag we’ve talked about exists to get you to…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:choose> Like <xsl:if>, but with multiple possibilities, more like if-then-else. <xsl:when> Used within <xsl:choose> as a conditional test. If the test is true, then the contained code is executed and the <xsl:choose> is exited. <xsl:otherwise> Used within <xsl:choose> as the “fall-back” condition. If none of the prior <xsl:when>s have been executed, the…