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hi, i have prepared the DTD and XML for my application. i am having some problems deciding how to structure the XSL and i'm hoping someone will be able to guide me. my design objective for the XSL doc is that it should be a generic doc that i can apply to applications (in my case i'm trying to design tech manuals using XML) that have the same make-up or XML/DTD heirarchy. i guess to make things easy for the time being i could design the XSL in such a way that it suits my prototype document but it would obviously be more beneficial if i could design a generic XSL that would cater to all the manuals that are are authored using XML. on similar lines, i have designed a more-or-less "generic" DTD and XML. the basic problem is that my DTD is rather loosely structured just so that it can be applied to any similar XML document. e.g. i have the declaration: <!ELEMENT activity (schematic | outline | text_description | visual_description | procedure | note | warning | caution)*> as you can see, any element can pretty much appear in any order and any number of times. e.g. i could have <visual_description> before a <procedure> or say before a <text_description> and i could have multiple ocurrences of <visual_description>. the case is the same with <note>, <warning>, <caution> etc. this is causing a problem to me when i try and design/conceptualize a generic XSL because although the elements could be the same for all XML docs, their order/inclusion could be different for each doc. how do i overcome this problem? what functionality of XSL (e.g. commands) would be best for designing such an XSL doc? i am really hoping someone will be able to help me with this. thanks a lot, Dhruv Dhruv Raheja Summer Intern (Documentation Center) GE Transportation Systems 2901 East Lake Road Erie, PA 16531 Ph : (814) 875 - 2529 (O) (814) 824 - 2888 (R)
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