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Hi,
Here is a little explanation of how we do what you write about (I think):
http://www.livestoryboard.com/CMS-FAQ/web-cms-customization.html#xsl
Basically, you have a set of fallback/defaults in a well known location.
Then each separate 'project' can import/extend/override the defaults.
You may also want to check out the configuration section.
best,
-Rob
James Adams wrote:
> I have been trying for some time now to rewrite the bulk of a web
> application framework using XML and XSLT. Essentially, the framework
> outputs an XHTML document by recursively parsing Java objects that can
> render themselves via a method call. Each web application that uses the
> framework has a Site object that generates something like (excluding
> doctype and attributes):
>
> <html>
> <head>
> { SITE CSS FILE}
> { MODULE CSS FILE}
> { VIEW CSS FILE}
> <head>
> <body>
> { MODULE XHTML }
> </body>
> </html>
>
> When the Site object renders itself, it replaces the { SITE CSS FILE }
> template with a link to its CSS file, and then calls the render() method
> on a Module object that does the same and fills in the {MODULE XHTML }
> template. The Module object in turn calls render() on a View object
> which follows the same process. In reality it is a little more
> complicated than this, since each of these objects can include
> self-rendering components, but that gives the general idea.
>
> What I am trying to do is replace this templating nonsense with XML
> documents that represent a Site, Module, and View object respectively.
> I have been using the XSL document() function from XPath to pull in the
> Module.xml document, which does the same to pull in the View.xml
> document. This is fine, and it builds the result tree into an XHTML
> document as expected, but using this method I have to put the XSL
> parsing instructions for every one of my parsable XML files into one
> huge XSL document. What I would much prefer to do is specify a separate
> XSL document for each XML document, and use the matched XSL to parse the
> XML and pull the resulting parsed document into the original source
> document. Is there any way to do this? I have been up to my eyeballs
> in standards documents for the past few weeks and have not been able to
> find an answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --James Adams
>
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