This post may come off a little whiny and entitled, but bear with me, as I don’t mean it that way. I was on vacation recently and did some long, hard thinking about where I am in my career and where I want to go. This cow has been giving away milk for a long…
I got a question today via Twitter and my blog that I thought I’d share: Further to Twitter message, I need to lookup values in a large list (thousands of items). Now, list performance and architecture issues aside, my intention is to use some JQuery enabled textbox which makes web service calls to suggest matching…
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…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:if> A single conditional test. If the test is true, then the contained code is executed. <xsl:if> is one of the simple workhorses in the Data View Web Part (DVWP) XSL arsenal. Its entire goal in life is to determine whether the code it contains is executed or not. Looking at our…