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Since I'm closer to getting what I'm working on into suitable shape for
distributing more widely, I'm now back to rethinking how to structure
the files.
Currently, I only have one set of input formats (docbook-ng/mods), and one output format (xhtml). However, I want what I've done to be easily extensible to other formats. I think the input format issue is pretty easy: I have a directory called "drivers" that contains files like "document-driver-db.xsl". Possible future export options are latex, openoffice, tei, fo, and maybe wordml. Currently, I have a structure like this (directories in brackets): [doc] [styles] mla.cls apa.cls ... [core] format-style.xsl functions.xsl core.xsl (includes files from the core directory) [drivers] drivers.xsl (includes files from the drivers directory) [xhtml] dbng.xsl (main document xsl, which includes xbiblio.xsl) [render-classes] [author-year] biblio-out.xsl citation-out.xsl render.xsl (includes two above) [key] [footnote] [number] render-mods.xsl (generic renderer) render-class.xsl (includes contents of render-classes directory) xbiblio.xsl (main xsl file, which includes other .xsl files above, and reads content of style file) The advantage of this is that everything is pretty well-modularized. If I need a new output format, though, it means adding a new subdirectory to the xsl directory, and then adding a bunch of further subdirectories and files (this is the approach with the standards docbook stylesheets). Does this make sense, or is their a better way to think of dealing with handling the different output formats? Some of the templates -- in for example the render-mods.xsl files) -- are output-agnostic, though I do have a lot of templates that look like: <xsl:template match="mods:titleInfo[not(@type='abbreviated')]"
mode="full">
<xsl:param name="prefix"/>
<xsl:param name="suffix"/>
<xsl:param name="font-style"/>
<xsl:param name="font-weight"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$prefix"/>
<span class="title {$font-style} {$font-weight}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="mods:title"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="mods:subTitle"/>
</span>
<xsl:value-of select="$suffix"/>
</xsl:template>Bruce
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