Re: [xsl] applying templates to all but ...

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 9:59 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> > Except the [1] you put near the end is saying to use the first in the
> > list; right?
>
> yes or no (depending on what you mean) It doesn't take the first in
> _that_ list there would be no point in doing 
> ('article-newspaper','article')[1]
> as that's just a long way of writing 'article-newspaper' it takes teh
> first element in the sequence of cs:reftype nodes obtained by selecting
> the cs:reftypes  with name attribute equal to an item in the list.

So if I have five in the list, and I want all of the first four that 
are present in the config file to be applied first, and the last 
(article) only, well, last (because it is the fallback)?  I use the 
same syntax?

Actually, the optional types only get applied from this template if 
they do not contain an "inherit-from" attribute.  Does that change how 
you'd code it?  Here's what you had:

<xsl:apply-templates
select="$style-biblio/(for $t in ('article-newspaper','article')
                return cs:reftype[@name=$t])[1]/cs:*">

> ... in practice you'd want to put the list into a variable or pull it
> from a config file or something.

..... and what would, say, the variable actually look like?

Bruce