Importing xslt into 1 master xslt then to html

[Patrick Long]

I have an xml document that i need to render as html. The html has six
slight variations depending on the value of a particular element in the xml.
the html is made up like this

a Html Table (always the same)

paragraph text
paragraph text
paragraph text

a Html table consisting of 1 THEAD and 1 TBODY.

My current solution is six differnt xslt files. They all have the same first
html table, the text for the paragraphs and the same second table. I have to
say i think this is rubbish.

What i would like to be able to do is have an xslt that "imports" an xlst to
do the first common table, then does it's own specific parapgraph then
"imports" another xslt to do the second common table.

My limited knowledge of xslt tells me I cannot do this. The xsl:imports must
be immediate children of the <xsl:stylesheet> element. If they are imported
at this level what order of precedence do the imported and local templates
run in. I obviously need then temapltes to fire in the correct order so as
to render the html correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Pat

[Steven Sexton]

One option is to use Named templates. You could import all of the different
templates, then use <xsl:call-template> to call the correct one.

I am not sure exactly what you are doing, but if the varations are slight
then you might be able to do the same thing with <xsl:choose>

Steven

"Patrick Long" <Patrick_long@csi.com> wrote:
>I have an xml document that i need to render as html. The html has six
>slight variations depending on the value of a particular element in the
xml.
>the html is made up like this
>
>a Html Table (always the same)
>
>paragraph text
>paragraph text
>paragraph text
>
>a Html table consisting of 1 THEAD and 1 TBODY.
>
>My current solution is six differnt xslt files. They all have the same first
>html table, the text for the paragraphs and the same second table. I have
to
>say i think this is rubbish.
>
>What i would like to be able to do is have an xslt that "imports" an xlst
to
>do the first common table, then does it's own specific parapgraph then
>"imports" another xslt to do the second common table.
>
>My limited knowledge of xslt tells me I cannot do this. The xsl:imports
must
>be immediate children of the <xsl:stylesheet> element. If they are imported
>at this level what order of precedence do the imported and local templates
>run in. I obviously need then temapltes to fire in the correct order so
as
>to render the html correctly.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>Pat
>
>
>
>
>
>