Try creating multiple entry points to your stylesheet, either as named
templates or as named modes, and invoking the transformation using -it
(initial template) or -im (initial mode). The secondary entry point might do
something as simple as displaying the content of a global variable.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacobus Reyneke [mailto:jacobusreyneke@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 March 2010 01:39
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Conditional Execution in XSLT 2.0
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently writing my content in XML, while at the same 
> time writing XSLT to transform this content into a written 
> manual. The problem is that sometimes I just want to quickly 
> print out part of my document using XSL-FO to PDF.
> 
> For example, what if I just quickly want to build the table 
> of contents, of if I just want to get certain element types, 
> sometimes only the structure of my XML, sometimes just the 
> images. Things like that.
> 
> Currently I'm commenting out parts of the XSLT, but there 
> must be a better way. Should I split my XSLT into different 
> libraries and conditionally include them based on parameters, 
> or should I try and set variables throughout the doc using 
> things such as visible/invisible? is there a tried and tested 
> way when working with ever changing XML and XSLT while still 
> creating and building the content and transformations?
> 
> What I just had to do as an example, was to comment out my "body text"
> templates and "list templates" and "image" templates" etc, 
> just so I could print out the document structure without any 
> content. Am I being stupid here?
> 
> Best,
> Jacobus