Dear all, There is an abundance of XSLT resources on the net and in books that discuss the details of XSLT, but yet, I feel I'm struggling to get things right...
The details, I think, is mostly okay, but design strategy, or whatever one would like to call it, that's where I really have no grasp at all. I have data flowing from several different sources: The same document fragment may come from a Provider, or from some XSP. Also, my basic idea is that many things should be included by XSLT. For example, I have had the idea that stuff that are common for for the entire site, such as headers, menus and the like, should be imported by an XSLT by for example an axkit: URI. Also, since my own language is spoken by only 4 millon people, I'm going multi-lingual from the start, and I figured I want a separate page with phrases, so that languages can be added by simply have someone translate a single file. With AxKit's pipeline architecture, it feels natural to have several stylesheets doing different operations, one adds headers and menus, one adds phrases, one transforms to XHTML, RDF or whatever. But that implies that a stylesheet would have to let some parts of the markup "pass through" unaltered, and then, in what sequence should they be loaded? Should each part be transformed to HTML first, and then combined, or combined and transformed last...? That's one of the things that are going through my mind right now... Perhaps using XSLT's own import functions would be more appropriate? I feel I can't get a good grasp of the difficulties each approach involves, and when I try one, I always bang my head against something sooner or later... So, how do you folks designing this stuff, and do you know some good resources that deals with things like this rather than the details? Perhaps the [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be a better place to discuss this, but I feel that people here are always so nice and helpful, and besides, it is in connection with AxKit that I'm wondering. Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
