RE: seriously trivial question about processing the ro

Jeni said:
> >> In other words, I use the template matching the root node to start
> >> processing using a particular mode. This arrangement makes it easy
> >> to combine stylesheets.
> >
> > Would you then have another mode for print output via xsl-fo Jeni?
> 
> I'd have a different *stylesheet* to get XSL-FO.

OK. I see below that you are modularising for future use;
I couldn't see any benefit initially in putting the processing
in modes. This makes it clear.



> When I wanted to filter-and-create-HTML, I'd create a third stylesheet
> that imported both the *2html and filter stylesheet, and had a
> template matching the root node that would look like:
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:variable name="filtered">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="doc" mode="filter" />
>   </xsl:variable>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($filtered)/*"
>                        mode="html" />
> </xsl:template>


Minimal re-writing too. If the processing is general purpose
this must be quite efficient in the longer term.

Thanks Jeni.

regards DaveP

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