Re: Importing stylesheets Precedence Info

Steven,

>Template A overrides B, but I still want B to be executed, but as it starts
>at the root, it never is and only the matching template originally in A is
>executed, overriding B. I only want to import B and not actually explicity
>call any templates - it should just encounter matches (and does) as it
>progresses the tree.

Have you tried using xsl:apply-imports [1] within A?  I think that you
should be able to do something like:

--- in A.xsl ---
<xsl:import href="B.xsl" />
<xsl:template match="/">
  <!-- do something -->
  <xsl:apply-imports />
</xsl:template>
---
--- in B.xsl ---
<xsl:template match="/">
  <!-- do something more -->
</xsl:template>
---

The imported template in B.xsl should then be called.  I don't know if
MSXML3 supports xsl:apply-imports, but the SDK documentation makes it look
as though it does.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#apply-imports

>Therefore, I put the line
>
><xsl:template match="text()|@*"/>
>
>which basically outputs nothing (or at least no text).
>Are there side effects to this?? It is output to HTML just now, but also XML
>will be an output also and I'm not sure if this method will cause me any
>problems.

The only big side effect I can think of is that you won't be able to
process mixed content very easily.  Having an empty template matching
against text() means that you won't get anything if you apply templates on
the children of a mixed content or text-only element.  This isn't a problem
with text-only elements because you can just use <xsl:value-of select="."
/> instead (and you can do something similar to get the value of
attributes), but mixed content would be a pain to process using simply
xsl:value-of.

Hope this helps,

Jeni

Dr Jeni Tennison
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