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

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 26, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:

> You say you want the user always to run the same stylesheet, and 
> parameterize your "operational mode" in a separate file. If that 
> separate file were (for example) an Ant build configuration, or a file 
> called in by such, which stylesheet is actually being run could be 
> opaque to the user. (We commonly address such requirements as 
> which-stylesheet-is-run at the level of the shell that invokes the 
> process, not the process itself.)

The configuration file would be an xml file with this root element:

	<citationstyle class="author-year">

I suppose there could be some other non-xsl programming magic to choose 
the right stylesheet if the benefits of the approach are so large that 
it more than offsets the loss of ease-of-use, but I really do like the 
idea of users just being able to do this:

	java net.sf.saxon.Transform -o test.xhtml test.xml ../dbng.xsl 
citation-style=aag

.... where dbng.xsl is just importing the single stylesheet.

Bruce