--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> James,
> 
> Much of your problem may be in trying to handle
> arbitrary TEI. The DTD is 
> loose enough, as you are finding, to make for quite
> a challenge in the 
> general case. :->
> 
> Most (or let's just say all) TEI will not use the
> full tag set, and it'll 
> be considerably easier to write stylesheets to
> handle the TEI subset used 
> in a particular project. If there's any way you can
> do that, consider it.

I *could* do that, but I'm trying to engage in some
"vicarious laziness," trying to make "fixes" to the
stylesheets good enough to be sent upstream.
Obviously, I've got a lot to learn before I can do
that.

> You might also find splitting your transform into
> two passes helpful. First 
> pass to normalize (e.g. makes all numbered divs into
> plain divs; XSLT 
> doesn't need the numbering!), and a second pass to
> provide the formatting. 
> The formatting stylesheet can accordingly be much
> tidier.

Now *that* sounds like a wonderful idea.


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