Andreas Kemkes wrote: > I would like to use variants ala DITA (e.g., > audience="general manager"). At the same time, I > would like to provide style sheets that show the > document with all variants as well as just a specific > one. > > My current thinking is that it would be nice to just > provide one style sheet for all specific variants by > prompting the user for the variant value(s), let's say > "manager", and use that value in the style sheet to > filter the content to be displayed. > > Is this even possible within the architecture of > XMLMind?
Yes. You need to write a macro command which prompts the user and then invokes a process command, passing it what the user has specified. * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/ch02.html * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/prompt.html * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/process.html > If yes, is there an example to look at? Any ``Convert'' macro-command. For example, look at XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook/xslMenu.incl > Or, are there other and better ways to accomplish the > same? No. This seems fine.

