Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > From the XSLT bible by Michael Kay (2nd edition page 232): > "Like inheritance un object-oriented languajes, <xsl:import> is designed > to allow the creation of a library or reusable components, only in this > case, the components are modules of stylesheets. And the mechanism works > in a very similar way to inheritance". > > My understanding is that we wanted <import/> to allow us to define > modules of <targets/>. > > You should read the full text of that page, I think a lot of what they > want to acomplish in XSLT matches what I think, we need to acomplish in > ANT, not sure is the way is done is the best for ANT, and they definetly > go deeper than just stylesheet overriding (precedence) they override all > kinds of things. Many do not apply to us, but others may.
Understanding the import in XSLT is not very easy ( at least for me ) - and I doubt that I'll be able to look at few XSLT using import and figure out the right order ( even if I think I understand the spec ). In any case - I would be very curious to know if there are other people who can claim they like ( and understand ) the XSLT import and feel comfortable understanding xslt files where the precedence rules are used. IMHO ant should try to be a bit easier to use than XSLT. Costin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
