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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