Re: [xsl] configuring a conditional

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 23, 2005, at 10:38 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

>   Remember, this part is just the styling language, where I use this 
> sort
>   of convention throughtout; e.g.:
>
> Yes but I'd rather specify the style used for et al separately (and in
> only one place) not every time et al gets used in a rule that says what
> to do if you are the 3rd occurrence of a reference to a 500 author 
> paper
> on high energy pysics.

Am not following.  Can you explain again?

Currently I have this:

    <names initialize-with=". " shorten-after="3" and-as=" &amp;"/>

... which IS apart from the citation and bibliography elements, and so 
is global for the style.

However, I've since found out the APA style specifies two different 
rule sets: one for citations and another for bibliographies.

So we need to allow configuration in two places; not any more.  Most 
citation style would only have a single rule:

<rule min-authors="4"...

As for occurrence in the text, all that matters is whether it's the 
first, or not, and many style don't even care about that distinction.

Bruce