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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: Can XLink be fixed?

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J. David Eisenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Norman Walsh wrote:
>>/ "J. David Eisenberg" <catcode@catcode.com> was heard to say:
>>| (essentially, how do I map <p class="important warning">...</p> to an 
>>| equivalent XSL-FO without parsing a stylesheet, or equally ugly, the
>>| class attribute.) 
>>
>><xsl:template match="p[@class='important warning']">
>>
>>But you must have wanted something more subtle than that...
> 
> Yes. I want something "generic."  I can do something to the effect of:
> 
>    <xsl:template name="handle-styles"> 
>       <xsl:if test="contains(@class, 'important')">
>          <!-- add appropriate attrs to fo:block -->
>       </xsl:if>
>       <xsl:if test="contains(@class, 'warning')">
>          <!-- add appropriate attrs to fo:block -->
>       </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:template>
> 
> which will do what I intend

Even that will fail to address the general case in fact. If a class 
called "importantly" is present you'll match wrongly. Besides, there may 
be nasty case-sensitivity problems floating around depending on whether 
there's HTML involved at some point or not.

-- 
Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
Research Engineer, Expway





 

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