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

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

Probably the tricky thing here, more even than getting the citations to 
render properly, will be numbering the footnotes. When citations are 
rendered as footnotes, the numbering sequence will have to include 
citations-not-in-footnotes along with the "real" footnotes, while not 
numbering citations in footnotes.

This is not impossible to do and get right, but that there is a 
complication here makes me wonder whether once again two passes wouldn't 
simplify things a bunch.

The first pass would just wrap all citations not in footnotes, in 
footnotes. The second pass would handle all footnotes as footnotes, 
trusting that there won't be any footnotes not marked as such (since 
they're marked as citations).

Make sense? How amenable is your process to multiple passes? Using XSLT 
2.0, as with the problem you had a week or two ago, this can be done 
transparently.

Incidentally, another design pattern of which you might not be aware is to 
place most of your code in a common core, but have different stylesheets to 
invoke for running in different "modes". You might find it much easier to 
code and maintain the stylesheets if you just invoke one stylesheet to get 
your citations as footnotes, another one to render them inline with 
name-year, etc. These two or three stylesheets would each call in the 
common core, so you wouldn't ever have to maintain the same code in three 
places. Managing the three different processes separately like this could 
be much easier than having to trigger off parameters all over the place.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 10:17 AM 8/25/2004, you wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > I found it hard to explain this.  Let me try again:
>
> Let me go back to the example:
>
> <para>
>   Standard citation: <citation><biblioref linkend="one"/></citation>.
>   Citation in a footnote: <footnote><para>And another citation
>     <citation><biblioref linkend="two"/></citation></para></footnote>
> </para>
>
> In footnote mode, I should get (number in brackets indicates footnote mark):
>
> <p>Standard citation: [1]. Citation in a footnote: [2]</p>
>
> The footnote content would then look like:
>
> 1.  Doe, John (1999) Title ....
> 2.  And another citation, Doe, John (1999) Title ....
>
> Bruce


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