RE: [xsl fo] xsl to a minimum / statements 'on the fly

You can achieve what you want with attribute value templates

<elem attr="{expr}">

but it seems to me like a peculiar design. It seems to miss the whole point
of what stylesheets are for.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ongeaddresseerd ongeaddresseerd 
> [mailto:ongeadresseerd@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 May 2004 12:48
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  [xsl fo] xsl to a minimum / statements 'on the fly'
> 
> (expecting my first mail didn't reach the list, apologizing 
> if this is the 
> second mail with the same question)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm rendering pdf's with fop and I would like to keep all my 
> lines/files of
> xsl to a minimum.
> 
> This means I put a lot of formatting information in my xml 
> file, something 
> like this:
> 
> <reportXML page-layout="portrait">
> 	<title> Hello world </title>
> 	<table table-layout="fixed">
> 		<tr background-color="#CCCCCC">
> 			<td width="10cm"
> 			   <block align="left">hello again</block>
> 			</td>
> 		</tr>
>                   ...
> 
> Trying to keep xsl to a minimum also means it won't include 
> hard-coded lines 
> like:
> 
>   <fo:page-sequence master-reference="portrait">
> 
> My fo-statements (try to) use elements from the input xml, 
> something like 
> this:
> 
>   <fo:page-sequence master-reference="<xsl:value-of 
> select="$page_layout"/>">
> 
> As expectd, his statement won't work.
> 
> How to accomplisch this?
> 
> ps what (technically) works, is:
> 
> 	<xsl:if test="@page-layout='portrait'">
> 		<fo:page-sequence master-reference="portrait">
> 			<xsl:call-template 
> name="continue"></xsl:call-template>
> 		</fo:page-sequence>
> 	</xsl:if>
> 
> 	<xsl:if test="@page-layout='landscape'">
> 		<fo:page-sequence master-reference="landscape">
> 			<xsl:call-template 
> name="continue"></xsl:call-template>
> 		</fo:page-sequence>
> 	</xsl:if>
> 
> But this will overload my xsl file with if-statements (difficult to 
> maintain)
> because I have to use this mechanism a lot.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> mathieu van echtelt
> 
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