Re: [xsl] Man Page Transform and Modes

[Michael B Allen <mba2000@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:03:06 -0500
"Jon Gorman" <jonathan.gorman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Or would you use a completely different approach? If so, what?
> 
> It's been a long, long time since I've looked at the troff macros. 
> But if most the elements are generic, then using modes might be
> overkill.  I tend to use modes where there are sections with
> similarily named elements  (or identically named ones) that are
> semantically different.  In this case I might just do something like:
> 
> <xsl:template match="section">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="@name='description'"><xsl:text>DE. </xsl:text>

But having tags called 'section' or attributes named 'description' suggests
the XML source is largely specific to man page generation which is not the case.

Mike