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Charles Muller wrote:
Wolfgang Laun wrote: Both Wolfgang's and Ken's suggested templates work, thank you! I realize, now, though, after testing this, that this is probably not the best way to achieve what I would like to do. This solution works fine for inline elements, such as <gloss xml:lang="ja">haiku</gloss> (let's say "haiku" was written in Japanese script), which would be transformed into something like <span style="font-family:Mincho">haiku</span>. In this case, <gloss> is essentially being replaced by <span> But if I have a block element, let's say <p>: The way I have been handling paragraphs for years is with this kind of structure: <xsl:template match="p"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@rend='indented'"> <p style="text-indent:12mm; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:9mm;font-family: 'Times Ext Roman', 'Times New Roman'"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </p> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@rend='plain'"> <p style="margin-left:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:0mm; line-height:9mm;font-family: 'Times Ext Roman', 'Times New Roman'"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </p> </xsl:when> ... ... (etc.) </xsl:choose> This is fine as my standard way of writing in English. But I also work with Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, and when I make paragraphs in those languages, I want to apply different fonts (and in some cases, different line heights, indents, etc., but for now, just focusing on fonts is OK). Up to now, the way I have been handling this is by making separate attribute values for the same paragraph style in a different language. For example, an indented Chinese paragraph would be transformed with something like this: <xsl:when test="@rend='indentedZH'"> <p style="text-indent:12mm; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:9mm;font-family: 'MingLiU, Mincho. Simsum'"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </p> </xsl:when> (all the values remain the same except for the font-family name) And Korean: <xsl:when test="@rend='indentedKO'"> <p style="text-indent:12mm; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:9mm;font-family: 'BatangChe, Batang'"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </p> </xsl:when> However, this begins to get unwieldy, since I basically need to replicate all of my paragraph formatting styles four times over, beyond the basic style I use for English. And so I recently thought that it would be better to take advantage of xml:lang for handling this, instead of creating an attribute value for each paragraph style in each language. This is what motivated my original query. I realize that I could create a sub-tree under each attribute name, like <xsl:when test="@rend='indented'">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="lang=('en')">
<p style="text-indent:12mm; margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0; line-height:9mm;font-family:
'Times New Roman'">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="lang=('ja')">
<p style="text-indent:12mm; margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0; line-height:9mm;font-family:
Mincho">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="lang=('ko')">
<p style="text-indent:12mm; margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0; line-height:9mm;font-family:
Batang">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@rend='plain'">(etc.) I could do this, but it certainly seems unwieldy. Or is this the way people usually do it? I can now use one of the templates kindly suggested by Ken and Wolfgang (which, based on my original query, implemented the <span> tag throughout). This is OK, but I wonder if it is appropriate or sensible to have this kind of situation throughout the generated document: <span style="..."><p style="...">Text text text.</p></span> Or, is there a more efficient way of making some kind of declaration for xml:lang that would work throughout the document, while inserting (concatenating?) the style values *inside* the already existent style values for <p>? This is what I would like to check into. I have both Jeni Tennison's and Michael Kay's thick books on XSL, but I have not been able to locate a discussion that deals with this kind of problem. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you, Chuck ------------------- A. Charles Muller University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters Center for Evolving Humanities Akamon kenkyE+ tE #722 7-3-1 HongE , BunkyE -ku Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.acmuller.net <acmuller[at]jj.em-net.ne.jp> Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787
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