Re: Setting a foreign attribute

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Subject: Re: Setting a foreign attribute
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:22:42 -0400

At 2009-10-31 14:15 -0700, Mark Wilson wrote:

FOP does not like this fragment and calls <xsl:use-attribute-sets> a foreign attribute.

Right ... xsl:use-attribute-sets= is recognized by XSLT processors and you are putting that attribute into an XSL-FO file which doesn't recognize it because it isn't part of the FO vocabulary so FO processors rightfully complain.

<fo:block> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="parent::Item"> <xsl:attribute name=" xsl:use-attribute-sets">article0</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="parent::Level1"> <xsl:attribute name=" xsl:use-attribute-sets">article1</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="parent::Level2"> <xsl:attribute name=" xsl:use-attribute-sets">article2</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="parent::Level3"> <xsl:attribute name=" xsl:use-attribute-sets">article3</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose>
                                   .....
                       </fo:block>
Is there a way to set <xsl:attribute-sets> similar to my unacceptable construction, or do I have to create all six attributes for each <xsl:when>?

The latter. You've overlooked what is happening where in the process. xsl:use-attribute-sets= is acted on during the building of the result tree and isn't recognized when placed directly in the result tree.

If you change:

  <xsl:attribute-set name="article0">
    ...
  </xsl:attribute-set>

to:

  <xsl:template name="article0">
    ...
  </xsl:template>

Then you can use <xsl:call-template name='article0'/> in order to add all of the attributes, but it means that everywhere where you have:

  <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="article0">
    ...

you will need to have:

  <fo:block>
    <xsl:call-template name='article0'/>
    ...

But there are features of xsl:use-attribute-sets= that might mean you can't just do that everywhere.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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Re: Different behaviour for the first item in a for-each-group, (continued) G. Ken Holman - 1 Nov 2009 01:56:52 -0000 Mark Wilson - 1 Nov 2009 02:32:09 -0000 G. Ken Holman - 1 Nov 2009 02:47:24 -0000 Mark Wilson - 31 Oct 2009 21:15:35 -0000 G. Ken Holman - 31 Oct 2009 21:23:58 -0000 <= Mark Wilson - 31 Oct 2009 21:50:10 -0000

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