Re: [xsl] misc. confusion on "footnote" handling

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeni,

On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:56 AM, Jeni Tennison wrote:

> It's not clear whether you actually want a parameter (declared with 
> xsl:param, set on the call with xsl:with-param) or you're using the 
> term 'parameter' in a more descriptive way. Perhaps you want two 
> different templates for the two different kinds of citation:
>
> <!-- citations appearing in footnotes -->
> <xsl:template match="db:footnote/db:citation">
>   ...
> </xsl:template>
>
> <!-- other citations -->
> <xsl:template match="db:citation">
>   ...
> </xsl:template>

I found it hard to explain this.  Let me try again:

Let's just take the simple case of a citation within a paragraph.

There are something like four or five different classes of citation 
styles.

Author-year would render the citation as (Doe, 1999)
Numbered would be like (1)

... and footnote would be, well, a footnote mark, and then the full 
reference would be placed in the footnote (typically instead of in a 
bibliography at the end)

So, I need to accommodate these vastly different classes.  My thought 
was thus to have a global parameter called class.  I just got stuck 
trying to understand how to handle this across different templates.  So 
based on your examples,  I'd probably want a choose option that did 
something like the following?

<xsl:template match="db:citation">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$class='footnote'">
      <footnote>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="citation" />
      </footnote>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="citation" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Bruce