It seems to me that there are two ways to manage changes to the XSLT
stylesheets:
1. Modifying the parameters/templates in-place.
2. Adding a customisation layer, duplicating (and thus overriding)
the parameters and templates that you specialise.
Initially, I went for the former approach, which was recommended in
"DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide", however, having just moved my
changes up from Docbook XSLT 1.68 to 1.73, I've switched to an
approach where I just modify the parameters and template in-place.
This means that when I update to future versions of the XSLT, I can
apply the diffs and resolve conflicts as appropriate - as it stood,
I'd modified cloned copies of templates that had changed
significantly in the update, and that wasn't caught until I manually
went back to look at the 'new' original templates.
However, this means that if I wanted to distribute any of my changes,
I'd be distributing them as a patch, rather than as a single file
that overrode the relevant templates - is this something that people
generally do?
Thinking of it, is there a page anywhere where people can distribute
their enhancements to the stylesheets?
Thanks,
Geraint North
Principal Engineer
Transitive
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