Re: [xsl] xsl:use-attribute-sets, xslt 1.0, fo output

[Dave Pawson <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:18:54 -0500
"G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, you don't have to read an external file of attribute sets, you 
> can just use document('') to read the stylesheet fragment itself and 
> find its attribute sets.
> 
> But I was suggesting abandoning the attribute sets and simply 
> rewriting them as called templates.
> 
> Yes, the nested references will be awkward, but only because you 
> state you are using XSLT 1 thus requiring the typical recursive 
> call.  Much easier in XSLT 2.

Stuck with xsl1 1.0 here.

My objective was to keep all attribute sets / fo styling, together in
one file, hence the external file. 

Makes for cleaner ... data, if not code. 

Seems to be working out OK.



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