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Re: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing)


apply css to xslt
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/ Michael Day <mikeday@y...> was heard to say:
| For example, if I wish to have an indent on paragraphs in my document, I 
| need only add the following rule to my user style sheet:
|
|     para { text-indent: 5mm }
|
| However, the XSLT based approach is more complicated. I could create a
| template for para, but then that would override *all* of the default
| styling for paragraphs, which is not what I want. The lack of additive,

Maybe you want to do this then:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:import href="/path/to/base/stylesheet"/>

<xsl:template match="para">
  <fo:block text-indent="5mm">
    <xsl:apply-imports/>
  </fo:block>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

(The HTML case is similar, though it probably relies on CSS so perhaps it makes
more sense to simply apply CSS to the resulting HTML.)

| For this reason I believe that CSS is a more effective approach for
| styling XML documents, while XSLT is best used for more general
| transformation tasks, such as generating documents and reports from
| "data-oriented" XML, or migrating from one vocabulary to another.

That's not my impression, but "de gustibus non est disputandum" as the
saying goes.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

- -- 
Norman.Walsh@S...    | The function of the imagination is not to
XML Standards Architect | make strange things settled, so much as it is
Web Tech. and Standards | to make settled things strange.--G. K.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  | Chesterton
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