Re: [xsl] grouping + global variable (?) (was re: regexs,

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:07 PM 8/13/2004, you wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2004, at 6:46 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:
>
> > As for modes, this looks like it'll work, but you might want to consider 
> > making phase-1 and phase-2 apply all the way down their own template 
> > hierarchies, to prevent them from stepping on each other inadvertently.
>
> So you mean to explicitly declare the mode on all the descendent 
> templates; e.g.:
>
> <xsl:template ... mode="phase-2">
>     <xsl:apply-templates ... mode="phase-2"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> ... and so forth?

Quite. I am not saying this is always necessary or a good idea (sometimes 
it's a headache), but you should consider it. Because you have a single 
template in phase-1 it is less of an issue here.

It's also a good time to think about names. Maybe change "phase-1" to 
"enhance-year" or some such and make phase-2 the default mode -- depending 
on where you think this stylesheet will go (if anywhere). It's really a 
maintenance question, I think.

Cheers,
Wendell


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