RE: configuring a conditional

Are you sure it isn't feasible to express the rules directly as match
patterns?

<xsl:template match="citation/name[position() gt 2 and position() lt 6]">
  <renderas font-style="italic">et al.</renderas>
</xsl:template>

(I know that example doesn't work, but you get the idea).

Alternatively I've seen this sort of thing done by applying dyn:evaluate to
XPath expressions held in a rule table:

<interest when=". gt xs:date('2004-01-01') and . le xs:date('2004-05-12')"
value="5.5"/>

The way you're tackling it, you're going to need to build those expressions
before evaluating them - I wonder if that's really necessary?

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce D'Arcus [mailto:bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 23 May 2005 02:28
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  configuring a conditional
> 
> In my XSLT, I need to configure formatting for so-called "et al." 
> handling in citations; e.g. (Smith et al. 1999).  Sometimes this gets 
> quite complicated, such that I've settled on this sort of config 
> markup:
> 
>        <multi-name-replace>
> 	<rule when-more-than="2" and-less-than="6" 
> and-position="subsequent" 
> use-first="1"/>
> 	<rule when-more-than="6" and-position="first" use-first="1"/>
> 	<renderas font-style="italic">et al.</renderas>
>        </multi-name-replace>
> 
> Now my question is, how would I actually implement this in 
> the XSLT?  I 
> can't rely on the and-less-than attribute to present, nor even the 
> entire multi-name element.
> 
> Or is there a better way to make the markup suitable for 
> transformation 
> (it's my schema, so I can make it whatever I want!)?
> 
> Bruce