Subject: Re: [xsl] i18n approach From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:51:11 +0000 |
Hi Dimitre, >> In order to use a single XSLT stylesheet on a particular set of >> source XML files, they need to have something in common. > > The most common feature is that they are written in XML. Well, OK. You can do things like have a stylesheet that always copies whatever source XML you pass it, or always just gets rid of it, or turns it into a browsable tree like the inbuilt stylesheet on IE does. On the i18n side, you can easily put together a generic stylesheet that filters for a particular language: <xsl:param name="lang" select="'en'" /> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:if test="lang($lang)"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> </xsl:copy> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> Or I guess you could create a generic stylesheet that accessed and copied a source XML file in a particular language: <xsl:param name="lang" select="'en'" /> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select="document(concat('source_', $lang, '.xml'))" /> </xsl:template> > I think Jeni is being shy here -- I know a whole class of very > different XML files that have a very useful single stylesheet to > process them -- the XML files are an instance of any possible > stylesheet, the stylesheet is her XSLDoc application... The XSLTDoc application actually uses knowledge about the *XSLT* vocabulary to build up its views, and couldn't do half the things it does if it didn't. But yes, I concede that generic viewers and browsers are a set of applications that are possible without an intimate knowledge of a particular XML vocabulary (though I think that they can be much enhanced if they know a bit about general things like XInclude, XLink, XML schemas and other special vocabularies). I don't think that Andreas was after a generic viewer, though. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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