RE: inheritance and encapsulation in xslt? / xslt for

Just picking up one point Howard;

You intimate that you need to process  instances from n schema's
and hope to do it in a single stylesheet (or small group of stylesheets),
since all these schema's are derived from xbrl.

As a generality, I've always taken the starting point
that there is a one to one mapping,

schema + required output => single stylesheet (or group forming one
stylesheet).

I.e. change the schema and a new stylesheet is required.

I'm now curious if others adopt this as a starting point?

I'm quite well aware that common processing can be re-used across schema,
but for the pareto I've adopted this position.

The more input variants the more brittle the stylesheet gets.
I demonstrated this to myself recently trying to process rss variants.


regards DaveP



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