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

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

At 01:09 PM 8/26/2004, you wrote:
> 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.

I guess I just don't see why this is easier or nicer than

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

... or than wrapping the whole thing into a shell script or batch file or 
whatever to do the delegation.

Yet on the other hand, if you're determined a run-time parameter is what's 
called for, Mike has just suggested that some XSLT 2.0 processors, at 
least, will be able to do an xsl:import conditionally.

Cheers,
Wendell


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