xml-dev - Does not work -- Re: FW: How To Include external XSL files into a master

["Jim Garrett" <jgarrett@navix.net>]

Hi again (Ken and all)

I attempted to follow the suggestion below
but IE informs me that the MS XML parser replies back that
you can not <xsl:include> or  <xsl:import>
at that location.
I posted the same question to the xsl list but
received back similar suggestions.
Please advise
Sincerely
Jim Garrett
jgarrett@navix.net
|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-xml-dev@xml.org [mailto:owner-xml-dev@xml.org]On Behalf Of
|G. Ken Holman
|Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 7:55 AM
|To: xml-dev@xml.org
|Subject: Re: FW: How To Include external XSL files into a master XSL
|file
|
|
|At 00/02/12 13:14 -0600, Jim Garrett wrote:
|>What is the syntax to link multiple child style sheets into
|>a master style sheet ...
|
|I'll describe three ways in this response, even though your example points
|to only one way.  This question is better posted to
|
|    XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
|
|>e.g.
|>header style sheet     header.xsl
|>footer style sheet      footer.xsl
|>data style sheet       data001.xsl
|>master style sheet.  master.xsl
|>
|>this way i can always reference the master.xsl
|>style sheet from any/all   *.xml files
|>and then link in header.xsl (this one never changes)
|>then the appropriate data.xsl (this one changes)
|>then link the footer.xsl (this one never changes)
|>
|>this way if I make any changes to the header
|>or the footer, they are edited in just one file
|>and reflected in all master.xsl files
|>
|>
|><?xml version='1.0'?>
|><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org>
|><xsl:template match="/">
|>
|><!-- include the header.xsl file here -->
|><!-- how to include syntax here -->
|>
|><!-- include the data.xsl file here -->
|><!-- how to include syntax here -->
|>
|><!-- include the footer.xsl file here -->
|><!-- how to include syntax here -->
|>
|>
|></xsl:template>
|></xsl:stylesheet>
|
|Your syntax above implies you want different snippets to be
|included in the
|root template, which can be done for the content of a single template, but
|I suspect you would rather want to include different sets of
|template rules
|into a single stylesheet.
|
|If you must have a portion of a given template in an external
|file, you can
|use the XML external parsed general entities, but that syntactic scheme
|does not support reuse properly (though many coerce it to
|try).  Personally, I don't put portions of templates in external files,
|rather, I use the <xsl:call-template> construct to accomplish what you are
|implying.
|
|There are two semantic inclusion schemes at the top level of a stylesheet
|(children of the stylesheet container element):  inclusion and importation.
|
|You can use <xsl:include> to pull in top-level elements from another
|stylesheet and all such constructs are included as if they were edited
|in-situ (which sometimes can introduce problems accommodating template
|conflict resolution).
|
|You can use <xsl:import> to pull in top-level elements from another
|stylesheet with the concept of "importance".  This confers more importance
|on the importing stylesheet constructs than on the imported stylesheet
|constructs, without conflict.  This is a powerful way to exploit an
|existing stylesheet with tweaks from an importing stylesheet.
|
|>also
|>what is the proper syntax in the included external xsl files
|>
|>are they structured the same as the master.xsl file would
|>e.g.
|><?xml version='1.0'?>
|><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org>
|><xsl:template match="/">
|>
|><!-- this is the header xsl file -->
|>
|></xsl:template>
|></xsl:stylesheet>
|
|Yes (with the caveat that again you appear to misconstrue the use of the
|declaration of the template for the root node) for included and imported
|stylesheets, but no for external parsed general entities (which are merely
|well-formed).  Included and imported stylesheets are entire stylesheets in
|their own right.
|
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|I hope this helps.  You can get more input from many others if you post
|such a question to the list I noted at the top of this message.
|
|.................. Ken
|
|
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