RE: [xsl] inheritance and encapsulation in xslt? / xslt for xlink?

["Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-
> list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Stearns
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:02 PM

> I didn't follow how this would work any number of levels deep.
> 
> It's ok if we only have us-gaap-ci-2html.xsl doing the basic
> transformations, and a CSS stylesheet based on @class to handle things
> that need to be different. Very cute.
> 
> But in fact ci is part of us-gaap which is part of the basic financial
> reporting taxonomy. Acme Corp may have many operating levels
> (subsidiaries, divisions, etc.). There may be more industry specific
> levels between us-gaap-ci and individual companies like Acme.  A
> stylesheet any of these levels should be able to define behavior that
> applies to all the more specific levels.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with real CSS, and maybe there's a way to inherit
> behavior. But I would guess the inheritance behavior would have to be
> generated somehow. How would CSS know which elements (which @classes)
> inherit from each other?

div .class1 .class2 .classN {}

Or, perhaps a simple example (not content, per se):

#nav .title, #nav c\:title {
font-weight:bold;
padding:0px;
margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;
font-size : 95%;
}

Handles:

<div id="nav">
  <div class="title">My Nav title</div>
</div>

Or:

<div id="nav">
  <c:title>My Nav title</c:title>
</div>

FWIW, I believe XSLers (going to XHTML or HTML) should have a good
understanding of how to separate concerns regarding what are the bones
(XHTML) and what is the skin (CSS). XSL, thought about this way, is the the
&deity; :)

Sidenote related to the table-modulus thread: tables not used for tabular
data are &evil;


> 
> Besides, I actually want the .xsl to be generating results for
> conformance testing. It won't necessarilly be XHTML output subject to CSS.

That is why I did not reply to your first post. I didn't think you were
going through all this just to get (X)HTML.

Best,
-Rob


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