Re: [xsl] stylesheet organisation

[davep <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/03/2011 04:10 PM, Jesper Tverskov wrote:
> Thanks once more for all the information about xsl:import.
>
> I have now also reread Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0
> Programmer's Reference, about xsl:import, 4th edition, pp 357-368, and
> must admit that there is much more to xsl:import than my
> oversimplified, misleading, mostly wrong, etc. (you can add what you
> please) generalization.
>
> I still need to boil it all down to something that is possible to
> explain in a minute or two in order to really understand it!
>
> Cheers
> Jesper Tverskov

As an example of import, the docbook stylesheets, fairly complex,
make a great use case.

The 300+ elements of docbook all have templates which style input.
A customization layer, which imports the docbook stylesheets, is
used to 'modify' to the user needs, the styling.

Hence my match='d:chapter' takes precedence over the standard
docbook template and allows me to provide the styling I want,
allowing all other elements to be styled in a standard manner.

Without this layer, importing the standard templates, the utility
of the suite wouldn't be as good.


HTH




regards

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