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Subject: Re: xsl:import
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:57:28 -0400
Re:  xsl:import
At 2009-09-03 15:42 -0700, Bill French wrote:
Hi all,

I'm using Saxon 9.1.0.7J for an application. I have stylesheets that import other stylesheet modules using syntax like this:

<xsl:import href="inc/framework.xsl"/>
<xsl:import href="inc/application-tabs.xsl"/>
<xsl:import href="inc/search-fields.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="../../override/xslt/customization.xsl"/>

Here's the weird thing: If I change the code to

<xsl:import href="inc/application-tabs.xsl"/>
<xsl:import href="inc/framework.xsl"/>
<xsl:import href="inc/search-fields.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="../../override/xslt/customization.xsl"/>

(note the change in order of the imports), the application-tabs.xsl simply stops being recognized. No warnings. It's as if the line containing the xsl:import instruction doesn't exist at all.

The transformation works as expected when using the built-in Saxon 8 processor in the Eclipse Oxygen plug-in.

Let me know if you'd like to see source code.

No, I'm guessing you have a match="*" or match="node()" in framework.xsl, or some match pattern that is catching the nodes you were expecting to catch in application-tabs.xsl. In the first list of imports the matches in framework.xsl have the lowest importance. In the second list of imports the matches in framework.xsl have a higher importance than all of the matches in application-tabs.xsl.


Recall that importance trumps priority. And latter imports have higher importance than earlier imports. If your earlier imports have higher priority matches, these will still be ignored due to the higher importance of matches declared in latter imports.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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