RE: [xsl] xsl:call-imports?

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a rational idea, but you can achieve the same effect by using a match
template with say match="*" and some special mode, and simply not using the
node that it happens to match on.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Caprino [mailto:mariocaprino@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 25 October 2004 17:18
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] xsl:call-imports?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm structuring my XSLT stylesheets and find myself missing an 
> <xsl:call-imports> element.  I feel I need such an element 
> for the exact 
> same reason that <xsl:apply-imports> is so usefull.
> 
> My specific case for wanting such an element is;
> My main stylesheet includes all my default templates.  For 
> the language 
> specific versions of the stylesheet I would like to send the language 
> specific text as parameters to the default template.
> 
> Heres an example;
> 
> __default.xsl__:
> 
> <!-- main template -->
> <xsl:template match="/">
> ...
> <xsl:call-templates name="facts" />
> ...
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates />
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> <!-- default implementation of "facts" -->
> <xsl:template name="facts">
> <xsl:param name="h" />
> <html:div class="shadow">
> <html:div class="facts">
> <html:h2><xsl:value-of select="$h" /></html:h2>
> <html:p>...</html:p>
> </html:div>
> </html:div>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> As you see the default template contains alot of tags I would 
> like to avoid 
> copying around for each language version, and minimal 
> language specific text 
> to insert.  I would now like to write in my langugae specific 
> stylesheet the 
> following code;
> 
> 
> __en-UK.xsl__:
> 
> <xsl:import href="default.xsl" />
> 
> <xsl:template name="facts">
> <xsl:call-imports name="facts">
> </xsl:with-param name="h" select="'Did you know...'" />
> </xsl:call-imports>
> 
> But without any <xsl:call-imports> I need to find 
> alternatives to accomplish 
> this;
> 
> 1) Use template match and apply-imports instead.  In my case 
> this will not 
> work as I am creating the surrounding elements to the page 
> content, thus it 
> doesn't fit with a particular tag in the source document.
> 
> 2) Using global variables and overide those.  This gets quite 
> messy once the 
> stylesheet gets bigger.
> 
> 3) Give different names to the language specific and the 
> default template.  
> In my case it does not make sense to call the default template except 
> through the language specific template, thus it might be the best 
> suggestion.
> 
> I still feel a <xsl:call-imports> element would be the _best_ 
> solution, and 
> do not see why it is not included is XSLT.  Is it because I 
> am trying to use 
> XSLT in a inappropriate fashion?
> Am I overlooking any other alternative for solving my 
> problem?  What would 
> you do to solve the above mentioned problem?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mario Caprino
> 
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