Re: [xsl] Conditional Execution in XSLT 2.0

Subject: Re: [xsl] Conditional Execution in XSLT 2.0
From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:04:32 +0530
I think, using stylesheet parameters, coupled with xsl:if or
xsl:choose is a good idea for this problem description.

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Jacobus Reyneke
<jacobusreyneke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently writing my content in XML, while at the same time
> writing XSLT to transform this content into a written manual. The
> problem is that sometimes I just want to quickly print out part of my
> document using XSL-FO to PDF.
>
> For example, what if I just quickly want to build the table of
> contents, of if I just want to get certain element types, sometimes
> only the structure of my XML, sometimes just the images. Things like
> that.
>
> Currently I'm commenting out parts of the XSLT, but there must be a
> better way. Should I split my XSLT into different libraries and
> conditionally include them based on parameters, or should I try and
> set variables throughout the doc using things such as
> visible/invisible? is there a tried and tested way when working with
> ever changing XML and XSLT while still creating and building the
> content and transformations?
>
> What I just had to do as an example, was to comment out my "body text"
> templates and "list templates" and "image" templates" etc, just so I
> could print out the document structure without any content. Am I being
> stupid here?
>
> Best,
> Jacobus



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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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