Re: [xsl] stylesheet expansion

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Geert Bormans wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a stylesheet with a pipeline in it
> and a large set of imported stylesheets (nicely shielded with seperate 
> modes)
> imported stylesheets are tested separately, so they all have a 
> template match="/" outside the mode
> (hence import instead of include)
>
> I would like to deliver one expanded stylesheet.
> Did anyone ever develop an expansion stylesheet (or other program)
> or has anyone ever come across such a thing?

I assume you'd want the expanded stylesheet to obey the import 
precedence rules? It's trivial to concatenate the imports into one 
stylesheet, of course, but to mimic the import precedence may be 
daunting, more so because determining the import precedence means 
dissecting the matches, which I believe is done once matches are found 
(i.e., when the XML is fed to the stylesheet), not entirely at compile 
time, because matches can overlap in different ways on different 
occasions... (but I'm afraid I don't know enough of compiling 
stylesheets into some internal representation to really assert this).

If you know of one specific set where the precedence is apparent (i.e., 
only on the / match, and the rest is inside the modes you mention), 
perhaps an if/when like construct in your main concatenated stylesheet 
would suffice.

May I ask why you want them all together? It seems to me that separate 
logical units is a better approach than one big stylesheet.

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma