local variables as entity reference in different style

Hi there (3rd try),

In stylesheets a.xsl, b.xsl and c.xsl I use the same local variables (not top-level, but inside templates).
I think the easiest way to do this, is to make use of 'variables.xsl' as an entity-reference (&variables;).
In fact, this is the way I do it. The only ugly thing about it, is that I have to put "xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'" into 
each variable, because I can't think of a suitable root element. It looks like this:

<xsl:variable xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" name="attributes">
 <xsl:call-template name="list">
  <xsl:with-param name="elements" select="normalize-space(attributes)"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="mode" select="'alias'"/>
 </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" name="attributevals">
 <xsl:call-template name="list">
  <xsl:with-param name="elements" select="normalize-space(attributes)"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="mode" select="'value'"/>
 </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

Another way to do this, is to make use of a "dummy" root element, like this:

<root xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:variable name="attributes">
 <xsl:call-template name="list">
  <xsl:with-param name="elements" select="normalize-space(attributes)"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="mode" select="'alias'"/>
 </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="attributevals">
 <xsl:call-template name="list">
  <xsl:with-param name="elements" select="normalize-space(attributes)"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="mode" select="'value'"/>
 </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
</root>

It works, but I would like to know what is considered to be "best practice".

Thanx,

Marko Draisma.






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