On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 01:46  am, Christopher H. Laco wrote:

> Now, lets say I'm going to add a page containing a list of CDs in my
> collection. At the XSP level, the xml will probably drop in as 
> something
> simple like
>
> <page>
>   <title>My CD Collection</title>
>   <content/>
>   <cdlist>
>     <cd artist="26">Foo Album</cd>
>     <cd artist="36">Bar Album></cd>
>   </cdlist>
> </page>
>
> Now, where's the best place to go from here? Add a cd.xsl stylsheet 
> before
> the to_xhtml.xsl stylesheet to convert the <cdlist> to the tags that
> to_xhtml.xsl is expecting?

That sounds about right to me.

> What about global site data, like a list of links?
> Is it best to use another stylesheet to add those to the base page 
> content
> before the to_xhtml.xsl transformation, esp. assumeing we may also 
> have a
> to_html4.xsl and a to_rss.xsl?

Yes. Do it the same way you would your CD example.

Also design your stylesheets if you can so that you can change easily 
from a multi-stage system to one where you use <xsl:import/> to combine 
multiple stylesheets into one.

Matt.


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