RE: [xsl] [xsl fo] xsl to a minimum / statements 'on the fly'

["ongeaddresseerd ongeaddresseerd" <ongeadresseerd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You can achieve what you want with attribute value templates
>
> <elem attr="{expr}">
>
> but it seems to me like a peculiar design. It seems to miss the whole point
> of what stylesheets are for.

yes I know it looks strange (i'm still exploring this design/strategy).

My rationale behind this strategy:

I want to put most in xml so I only need 1 xsl file per output medium (e.g. 
pdf, html) but per output medium only 1 xsl file is able to generate x 
different 'reports'.

disadvantage: For different reportstyles of same data I need different xml 
files.

This is acceptable because in my app, xml generation/manipulation is 
relatively easy to accomplish and I don't want my user to introduce to xsl.

I still have to see if this works out.
--

<elem attr="{expr}">  ??

I don't get it yet but I'll investigate this answer further. (I'm not a 
regular xsl user)

thanks,

Mathieu

> Michael Kay
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ongeaddresseerd ongeaddresseerd
> > [mailto:ongeadresseerd@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 14 May 2004 12:48
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] [xsl fo] xsl to a minimum / statements 'on the fly'
> >
> > (expecting my first mail didn't reach the list, apologizing
> > if this is the
> > second mail with the same question)
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm rendering pdf's with fop and I would like to keep all my
> > lines/files of
> > xsl to a minimum.
> >
> > This means I put a lot of formatting information in my xml
> > file, something
> > like this:
> >
> > <reportXML page-layout="portrait">
> > 	<title> Hello world </title>
> > 	<table table-layout="fixed">
> > 		<tr background-color="#CCCCCC">
> > 			<td width="10cm"
> > 			   <block align="left">hello again</block>
> > 			</td>
> > 		</tr>
> >                   ...
> >
> > Trying to keep xsl to a minimum also means it won't include
> > hard-coded lines
> > like:
> >
> >   <fo:page-sequence master-reference="portrait">
> >
> > My fo-statements (try to) use elements from the input xml,
> > something like
> > this:
> >
> >   <fo:page-sequence master-reference="<xsl:value-of
> > select="$page_layout"/>">
> >
> > As expectd, his statement won't work.
> >
> > How to accomplisch this?
> >
> > ps what (technically) works, is:
> >
> > 	<xsl:if test="@page-layout='portrait'">
> > 		<fo:page-sequence master-reference="portrait">
> > 			<xsl:call-template
> > name="continue"></xsl:call-template>
> > 		</fo:page-sequence>
> > 	</xsl:if>
> >
> > 	<xsl:if test="@page-layout='landscape'">
> > 		<fo:page-sequence master-reference="landscape">
> > 			<xsl:call-template
> > name="continue"></xsl:call-template>
> > 		</fo:page-sequence>
> > 	</xsl:if>
> >
> > But this will overload my xsl file with if-statements (difficult to
> > maintain)
> > because I have to use this mechanism a lot.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > mathieu van echtelt
> >
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