Xsl:include and xml:import

Question

I want to use another stylesheet within the original one.
the documentation just said how to declare an
xsl:include or xsl:import element as top level, but no examples about how to call the imported or included stylesheet.
I'll appreciate any examples you can provide to me .
Thanks
Chris

Answer 1

I've done this, and the way i think about it is that each "imported" XSL document combines (or are appended) into the XSL document that imports the other XSL documents. As such, all of the template matching that is occuring has to be consistent with the way the XML tags are matching up with XSL templates.
It is important that the templates in each imported XSL document will match up to the XML tags that the templates are designed to transform.
In other words, if i have an employee list <emp>, and an XSL template matching the <emp> element, i can produce a transformation on the list itself. now, i can define a transformation for a child element of <emp> by "importing" the XSL document that defines the template match for the child element (for example, "emp/lastName" can be what the second XSL document matches on).
Long story short, if you can paste the imported XSL into the importing XSL and things still work, then you can separate them out into multiple modular XSL files for inclusion.
-dave
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Christos Kouros ([email protected]):
I want to use another stylesheet within the original one.
the documentation just said how to declare an
xsl:include or xsl:import element as top level, but no examples about how to call the imported or included stylesheet.
I'll appreciate any examples you can provide to me .
Thanks
Chris<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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