> -----Original Message----- > From: Aurelien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: taglibs for stylesheets > > > Hi, > > I just love the logicsheet mechanism. Now, I wondered wether it'd be > possible to implement a similar mechanism for stylesheets. I'm writing > an article on HTML table formatting (for twigs), and I realize that it > could be very cool to have a, say, <formatting:table ...> tag that you > could embed in your stylesheets. > > The tag could have attributes like "number_of_columns" > "cell_background", "border_width", etc... > > On the web site I'm working on, there are lots of xsl generated tables, > and cocoon2 today only allows me to edit an xsl file for each and every > table I need to generate, and forces me to maintain as many xsl table > formatting stylesheets as I have pages. > > How could this shortcoming be addressed ?
I do see several ways of solving your issue: 1. Use CSS2 It will allow you to keep <table>, <tr>, <td> tags with just one attribute - class, or even less :) 2. Come up with common DTD for all your documents (e.g., introduce tag <formatting:table ...>), and use this DTD in all of your documents. Then, as the last transformation stage (right before serializer), apply stylesheet which will transform your tags into HTML <table>s. 3. If you love XSP, you should love this third way :) You could generate XSLs using XSP mechanism. Just look at sub-sitemap examples. But do not forget that it's in your interests to make XSL-generation pipelines cacheable, otherwise performance will suffer. Does this help? Regards, Vadim > > Aurélien > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
