XSLT tips for cleaner code not only helps with maintenance and readability, but some of these also help improve performance. The first in a series of XSLT posts, this one concentrates mostly on cleaner coding. Tips cover areas such as xsl match templates versus named templates, xsl:for-each versus match templates, optimising use of variable declarations, using in-built XPATH functions for performance and easier to read code, and more. Continue reading →