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Re: Conditinally including an XSL module
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- Subject: Re: Conditinally including an XSL module
- From: uche dot ogbuji at fourthought dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:55:41 -0600
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Still having troubles posting to the list. Re-send...
> So what's the underlying requirement that people would like a "run-time
> include" to satisfy? Presumably it's to have a different set of template
> rules depending on what you find in the source document, and perhaps to have
> different sets of template rules in force at different times. That looks
> rather like an extension of the "mode" concept, with the ability to select
> the processing mode dynamically, and to make it "sticky". Perhaps even to
> set the default mode, so that <xsl:apply-templates/> will only look for
> rules with "mode='xyz'". Am I right?
I'm about a week behind, but I'll note that the latest release of 4XSLT (which
I just announced) includes just such a capability, indirectly.
We've added an extension called set-mode which accepts an AVT so that one can
piggy-back off global parameters to set a default mode.
It's used as in the following:
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ft="http://Fourthought.com/4Suite/XPath/Extensions"
extension-element-prefixes='ft'
version="1.0"
>
<xsl:param name='start-mode' select='"mode-1"'/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<doc>
<xsl:apply-templates>
<ft:set-mode select='{$start-mode}'/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</doc>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match='*' mode='mode-1'>
<mode-one/>
<xsl:message>In Mode 1<xsl:message>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Then one can use the command-line or API inteface to override the default
value of $start-mode
--
Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant
uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com +1 303 583 9900 x 101
Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com
4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA
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