Wilhelmsen Tor Iver wrote:
It would be nice to use these features of XSL to make it easier to reuse
the same attributes. Particularly in the first of these cases:
XSLT supports this already, but with a slightly different syntax to what
you posted.
1) In the FO-generating stylesheet:
<xsl:attribute-set name="heading" fo:width="100%" fo:font-weight="bold" />
should be:
<xsl:attribute-set name="heading">
<xsl:attribute name="width">100%</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="font-weight">bold</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
...
<fo:block xsl:use="heading">...
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-set="heading">
2) In FO (possibly generated from the XSL using xsl:element)
Is there a way to make FOP make the XSL transformer use
xsl:attribute-set and xsl:use? Is a patch needed either in FOP or the
transformer?
Theres no way of dynamically selecting the attribute set to use I'm
afraid you have to hard code all possibilites upfront. E.g.
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name()='element1'>
<element1 xsl:use-attribute-set="element1"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="name()='element2'>
<element2 xsl:use-attribute-set="element2"/>
</xsl:when>
....
</xsl:choose>
Chris
