Re: [xsl] Dynamic, configurable transformations / was: Re: Wrap changing element sequence into container: with 'for-each-group'?

[Yves Forkl <Y.Forkl@xxxxxx>]

Abel Braaksma wrote:
> Yves Forkl wrote:
> > My idea was to define an XML language that would describe the
> > desired transformation for each p style, and to retrieve the
> > transformation rules specified as XML from inside the
> > application-specific style sheet  that just imports the module with
> > the unmodified "p" template.
>
> try XSLT, it is an XML language that can be used to describe any
> desired transformation.

Good point. :-) I will follow your advice and try developing a 
meta-stylesheet to generate the template rules I need. (There will be a 
lot of repeated code, that's why I looked to generate it by configuring 
a more general process, while hoping to escape the need of actually 
generating XSLT style sheets by means of XSLT.) Thank you also for your 
hints about other techniques like customization by reading external 
documents and about "tuning" import of modules.

Meanwhile, I am doing as David suggested, writing conventional templates 
that match "p" elements depending on their style attribute.

The grouping problem still trips me up... I will give details on it in 
my reply to Michael's posting. Thank you all so far for helping me that 
much.

  Yves