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without seeing an example it's hard to say. > My idea was to define an XML language that would describe the desired > transformation for each p style, and to retrieve the transformation > rules specified as XML from inside the application-specific style sheet > that just imports the module with the unmodified "p" template. that all sounds reasonable until the last bit where I don't see what a template matching p is doing for you. If it just matches all p's then tests the style attribute to call named templates then you would apparent;y get exactly the same effect, but much more efficiently, by not having the template match all p and instead having separate templates that match different styles. > Would you consider it a better idea to dynamically generate an > application-specific style sheet containing classical push style > templates, in my case stuff like match="p[@style='value1'] ? That would > at least allow me to group adjacent siblings into a common container, I > suppose. I think the grouping is a separate issue, which is usally best handled in the template that matches the parent of your p elements. But if your p template looks like <xsl:template match="p"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@style='a'"> <xsl:call-template name="p-a"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@style='b'"> <xsl:call-template name="p-b"/> </xsl:when> Then it's usually a good idea to get rid of the p template and change <xsl:template name="p-a"> to <xsl:template match="p[@style='a']"> as it's less code to write, easier to maintain, and more efficient to run. If that isn't what you mean by your general p template then ignore the comments (and give an example:-) David
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