Re: [xsl] Managing XSLTS for XSLFO - Shared templates and attribute sets

[Kamal <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2008-03-27 22:31 +1100, Kamal wrote:
> > I have a number of XSLTs for our clients that produce XSL FO. Right 
> > now, I make extensive use of attribute sets. I basically setup all my 
> > attribute sets at the start of the file and call them as I need them. 
> > This works great, just as long as you don't want to share templates. 
> > Unfortunately, I am going to need to share some of those templates in 
> > the future, but the attributes used may be different (obviously, 
> > these attributes are defining styling).
> >
> > Any thoughts as to how I can have my cake and eat it too?
>
> Have a stylesheet fragment defining common sets and common behaviours, 
> then have different stylesheet fragments for each distinct environment 
> import the common fragment.  Each environment will then have their own 
> distinct amalgam of their specific styles and the common styles.
>
> To see an example of this, there is a free stylesheet library in the 
> developer resources section of our web site (linked below) for 
> presenting instances of the Universal Business Language (UBL) to both 
> HTML and PDF.  This library illustrates the importation of common 
> fragments, including a common fragment between both HTML and XSL-FO 
> stylesheets implementing the access to the UBL instances.  This common 
> bit is at the bottom of each import hierarchy.  A number of the 
> stylesheet fragments in this library are synthesized using another 
> resource we make available that is a stylesheet that writes 
> stylesheets ... so designed precisely to allow different environments 
> to import common behaviours.
I am having trouble finding the exact XSLTs you are talking about. I got 
this far:

http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/index.htm

But I don't know which file I should look at.

Thanks.