RE: <xsl:apply-imports> and rules with higher priority

Why not have


module A
   import module B
   overriding xsl:param declarations

module B
   include main stylesheet
   non-overriding template declarations 

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

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> From: Johannes Neubauer [mailto:johannes.neubauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 June 2008 20:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  <xsl:apply-imports> and rules with higher 
> priority; And more!
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> Hi,
> 
> Michael Kay schrieb:
> | And the answer to that is: no, you can't change the language
> specification.
> 
> That was of course not what I meant.
> 
> | But you didn't say anywhere in your message what you 
> needed, you only 
> | said what you wanted. If you describe your problem, rather than a 
> | proposed solution which doesn't work, then we can help you.
> 
> My problem is, that I have built a graphical abstraction 
> layer on top of XSLT, which is transformed to XSLT. I like to 
> group template rules that are imported into the main 
> stylesheet. I use xsl:import, because I have technically 
> caused global parameter declarations that would collide with 
> xsl:include. But although the stylesheets are imported, I'd 
> like to decide which rule is taken by priority.
> 
> One possible solution might be:
> * code the priority into the mode (<ident>_<prio>) during the 
> stylesheet generation,
> * use a fallback dummy template returning an unique 
> identifier for all the modes and
> * call apply-templates for all modes (descending order)
> * until the first does not return the dummy identificator.
> 
> But that isn't intended at all, I think. Another way would be 
> to copy the template rules to the main stylesheet, remove 
> duplicate template signatures and import only the rest of the 
> top-level-declaration of the stylesheet modules (like 
> parameters and keys).
> 
> wfg,
> Jonny.
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