Re: [xsl] Copy results

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Obviously I am using multiple stylesheet modules (though not 50 at  
this point), and indeed can generate in part or whole. The documents  
themselves contain type information to determine the stylesheet  
choice. Is Ant used to regenerate the whole (all the standards you  
mention) or per each logical document?

With respect,
Steven


On Jul 8, 2008, at 4:06 AM, Michael Kay wrote:

> > I do hope that Michael (Kay) is not expressing skepticism
> > concerning this application of XSLT. It seems to me to be
> > common enough.
>
> XSLT is ideally suited to this task. But for this kind of  
> application I
> think one usually needs more than one stylesheet, and you need some  
> control
> logic to decide which stylesheets to invoke on which source  
> documents in
> what sequence, and it's very often appropriate to implement that  
> control
> logic in something like Ant (or even a shell-script if you're into  
> that kind
> of thing).
>
> Last time I counted, the production system for the Query/XSLT family  
> of
> specifications included over 50 separate XSLT stylesheet modules.  
> You need
> something to tell the system what to do with them (in this case, Ant  
> is
> used).
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/