Re: [xsl] [XSL-FO] Way to include an outside stylesheet?

[Colin DeClue <colin.declue@xxxxxxxxx>]

I do have that at the top of my stylesheet, but when I tried
<xsl:include>, it complained. It looks like I was using the include
element incorrectly, however. I'd just assumed when it didn't
recognize the include that it just wasn't XSLT.

Thanks. The knowledge that I CAN use it should hopefully be enough to
get me to use it correctly, this time.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Colin,
>
> If your stylesheet has something like this at the top:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; ...
>
> then it is XSLT. (Yes, XSLT is used routinely to generate XSL-FO. "XSL", in
> fact, properly means the combination of XSLT and XSL-FO, even if it's also
> commonly used to mean XSLT without XSL-FO.)
>
> So you have xsl:include, xsl:import, templates and the entire range of XSLT
> functionalities available.
>
> In fact, if you find you are writing lots of xsl:if or xsl:choose
> instructions, chances are good that you could improve your XSLT quite a
bit.
> In XSLT, conditional processing is often done in other ways, and usually
> more gracefully.
>
> Most of what you learn when you use XSLT to generate other formats (such as
> HTML) will also apply when using it to make XSL-FO.
>
> So, absolutely, yes, go for it.
>
> (If you aren't using XSLT, then can you explain how you are generating your
> XSL-FO?)
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
> On 2/7/2012 12:02 PM, Colin DeClue wrote:
>>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> So, I'm using xsl-fo (with the Antenna House Formatter) to develop
>> several reports. Many of them have share a large section of the body.
>> I was building them up by having lots of if statements for the other
>> parts of the reports, but that's getting cumbersome. I'd like to have
>> the body portion in a separate style sheet, and keep the separate
>> reports in separate style sheets that reference the body portion. I
>> saw that xslt an<xsl:include>  element, but I couldn't find something
>> for xsl-fo. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Colin DeClue
>
>
>
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