RE: Maintainability Problem

Have three modules, A, B, and C, with A and B both importing C using
xsl:import. Include the parts that differ (in your case, the xsl:output
declarations) in A and B, and the common parts in C. Run the
transformation nominating A or B as the principal stylesheet, depending
which output format you want.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Kyle
> Sent: 03 March 2003 13:53
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Maintainability Problem
> 
> 
> Hi-
> 
> I haven't used XSL in a while, and I am facing a 
> maintainability problem. 
> 
> I have created two XSLs, one which is with a DOCTYPE for HTML 
> 4.01, the other for XHTML Basic. These XSLs are exactly the 
> same, except for these parts of my XSL:
> 
> HTML 4.01
> ---------
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>     
> <xsl:output method="html"
>     doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
>     doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
>     encoding="iso-8859-1" 
>     indent="yes"/>
> 
> ...and 
> 
> XHTML 1.0
> ---------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>     xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>     
> <xsl:output method="xml"
>     doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN" 
>     
> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd"
>     encoding="iso-8859-1" 
>     indent="yes"
>     omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> 
> Does someone know an easy way in which I could have two 
> files, one with the HTML 4.01 header and one with the XHTML 
> 1.0 header, and I could reuse them whenever I wanted by 
> calling them in XSLs when needed. For example, could I just 
> do an include of these headers rather than having to copy 
> them in each file? 
> 
> Please let me know,
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Tim Kyle
> University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)
> 
> 
> 
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