> I agree that a multi-stage XSL processing may improve maintainability of
web
> sites or other presentation systems. Your example is pretty illustrative.
> However, I don't believe it should be done within a XSLT processor. ....
> ... it is also beyond the scope of XSL specs.
That's basically what I was wondering -- whether this was part of the spec,
or not.
> If you need more than just to couple XML data and stylesheet using the
> xml-stylesheet instruction, you probably have to use some kind of
application
> framework to control the flow of transformations
And in the long run, that's probably better. I'll just modify my front-end
dispatcher (receives the http request and determines which XML file to use,
and which output stylesheet to apply) to handle these special cases
differently. In the long run, that approach probably leaves me with more
flexibility, as (now) I have a separate XML file that simply includes the
deeper XML.
Now I just need to come up with a clean, simple, flexible approach to that
side of the issue... :-)
david.
