Re: [xsl] configuring a conditional

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 23, 2005, at 8:24 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> > Now my question is, how would I actually implement this in
> > the XSLT?
>
> As I couldn't really guess what half the attributes in your example
> mean. (Or rather I could guess several meanings)

Feel free to suggest better names.  I'm not at all religious about any 
of this; just want something that works well.

> > 	<rule when-more-than="2" and-less-than="6"
>
> is clear enough (although I hate the 
> attribute-name-as-sentence-fragment
> style) But even here is this rule triggered on an author name that's in
> a position in that range, or a citation reference that has a number of
> authors that falls in that range?

In English "when-more-than" refers to "when there are more than X 
number of names with an author-like/creator role."

> > and-position="subsequent"
>
> subsequent to what? (The answer to this question might be obvious given
> the answer to the first question)

To the first occurrence of the citation in the text.  So APA says, for 
example, that when you have less than six authors in a citation, the 
first occurrence in the text should list them all, and then all 
subsequent should list the first + "et al."

Aside: I've still not worked out HOW to deal with this first/subsequent 
business generally.  It's an issue too with footnoted citations.  In 
both cases the first occurrence is basically the long form, and the 
rest are shortened.

> > and-position="first"
>
> as above.

Ditto.

> > use-first="1"
>
> I can't even guess what this means.

Use the first 1 author names.  I use that somewhat awkward name because 
some styles say to use the first 3, or 6, or whatever.

> > 	<renderas font-style="italic">et al.</renderas>
>
> I'm not sure that it's good to mix up the transformational aspects of
> possibly trucating an author list with the font styling aspects of how
> to typeset et al.

Remember, this part is just the styling language, where I use this sort 
of convention throughtout; e.g.:

        <title font-style="italic">
          <suffix>.</suffix>
        </title>

In the XSLT, it could certainly be separate steps.

Bruce