> while a CSS modification would likely be much less verbose, doing it
> in XSL has the advantage that you should be able to upgrade it
> painlessly most of the time. That's because you'll copy the original
> template into your theme and modify it, which is called template
> overriding (conceptually similar to method overloading). The one in
> your theme will have priority, thus overriding the original one. It
> will continue to work after an ugprade even if there are changes to
> the original theme, unless there's a change in that specific template
> you've overriden, in which case you'd upgrade it as usual (diff).

OTOH, from an archival point of view, splitting a chunk of running text 
into paragraphs so you can reassemble them nicely later is an accident 
waiting to happen.

CSS (re-)customisation is (I would guess) the lightest-weight of all 
(re-)customisations in web applications, certainly CSS skills are more 
common than XSLT skills.

 > The CSS looks a lot simpler, but I don't know which CSS or
 > /conf/ file to stick it in.

I put all my tiny customisations at the end of the style.css for the 
theme I'm using.

cheers
stuart
-- 
Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/


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