Re: switching between multiple languages in XSL

Jason Viers <bean@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> We're transforming a XML file to HTML via XSL, and we'd like the XSL to 
> be usable across multiple languages.  The XML file being transformed 
> does _not_ have the text we'd like to select between, just an indication 
> as to what language should be used.  There are things like static 
> headers & footers we'd like to switch between based on the flag in the XML.
>    
> We'd like to have the language-specific sections in their own files, so 
> the language teams can work on them independently of the main XSL file.  
> We couldn't find a way to do this using <xsl:import> as we can't have a 
> certain one included based on a condition,a nd we can't really "select" 
> out of those, as they're not the source document.
>
> Has anyone tried something similar, or have any advice how to
> approach this?

I did a big job on this for a lot of legal content using multiple
source documents.

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