Re: [xsl] Calling a different stylesheet based upon XML tag?

["Wilde Rebecca L SSgt HQ SSG/STS" <Rebecca.Wilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Koberg wrote:
>This is pretty easy in XSL. You just need to apply templates on the
>source and catch the elements with template matches. You could do
>something like:
>
><!-- router.xsl -->
><xsl:import href="order.xsl"/>
><xsl:import href="bill.xsl"/>
>
><xsl:template match="/rootElem">
>   <xl:apply-templates/>
></xsl:template>
>
><!-- order.xsl -->
><xsl:template match="Order">
>... do order processing...
></xsl:template>
>
><!-- bill.xsl -->
><xsl:template match="Bill">
>... do bill processing...
></xsl:template>
>
>best,
>-Rob

I understand how to do that, but I was hoping not to have to go that
route.

See at the moment I have a file like order.xslt and within it there is a
a template match="Address" with a set of instructions.  I also have a
file like bill.xslt and within it there is also a template
match="Address" with a different set of instructions.

I am using a creating a web service that take in XML converts to a
string, processes it and gets a return string, which I then reconvert to
XML.  This is part of my requirement, so that can't change.  In order to
keep the web service generic, I'd like to be able to always direct it to
one xslt driver file for the input and one xslt driver file for the
output based upon what program/system I need to transform for.

Since I am playing middle man to help interface between too systems.
Multiple transactions may have the address tag on it, but each one needs
to transform it differently to the string.  And then transform it back
on the output.  Thus, I've built an input and output xslt for each
transaction I want to enable.  The input xslt uses template matching, as
I have understood it to be the fastest xslt processing.  The output xslt
uses template names and call-template in order to place everything in
the correct order.  The use of template match and name are to facilitate
use of a database to automatically regenerate the xslt files as needed.

Is there a way to create an input driver xslt file and an output xslt
driver file where it either includes just the one set of templates I
need at run time.  Or where it can point the text to transform to the
correct file?

Thank you!
Becky