Re: [xsl] XHTML templating (best method)

Michael Kay wrote:

That would be a better way around but I can't see a way to wrap the page-specific stylesheets in the common one without breaking the common stylesheet in two stylesheets, top and bottom, or am I missing the point.

Something like this:

[specialCase.xsl]

<xsl:stylesheet>

<xsl:import href="generalCase.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/" mode="page-specific">
 ... generate page-specific content ...
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

[generalCase.xsl]

<xsl:stylesheet>

<xsl:import href="generalCase.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
 <boilerplate>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="page-specific"/>
 </boilerplate>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The detail can vary, depending on how much common structure there is between the different XML source documents. As shown above, it works with no common structure at all: the only thing the general-purpose stylesheet does it to wrap a standard boilerplate around the page-specific output.

That works great thanks! Except generalCase.xsl should not have the import. I renamed mine to layout.xsl (aka generalCase.xsl) and list.xsl (aka specialCase.xsl). I now need to find out why it works, ie. what mode is :)

[layout.xsl]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title>Something</title> </head> <body> <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="view"/> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

[list.xsl]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0"> <xsl:import href="layout.xsl"/> <xsl:template match="/" mode="view"> <h1>List of People</h1> <xsl:for-each select="/data/people/person"> <div id="person" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <xsl:value-of select="@id"/> <BR/> <xsl:value-of select="firstname"/> <BR/> <xsl:value-of select="lastname"/> <BR/> </div> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

[data.xml]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<data>
   <title>List of people</title>
   <people>
       <person id="1">
           <firstname>Harry</firstname>
           <lastname>Love</lastname>
       </person>
       <person id="2">
           <firstname>Tim</firstname>
           <lastname>Burton</lastname>
       </person>
   </people>
</data>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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