Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: variable import hrefs?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM>]

> From: Mark Johnson <mark@phy.duke.edu>
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> For xsl stylesheets, is there a way to set import hrefs at runtime?
> 
> i.e. something having this effect:
> 
>   <xsl:import href="{$my_stylesheet_home}/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
> 

I don't think so.  The <xsl:import> href attribute is
defined in the XSLT Recommendation as a URI reference.
URIs can be relative or absolute, but it doesn't say
anthing about them being variable. 8^)

Did you try it?

XSLT can generate attribute values in a result tree
(document).  You could do a two-step process, where you
first generate your formatting stylesheet using another
"generate-stylesheet.xsl" template operating on a small XML
configuration file containing your parameters.  The output
of the first step would be your formatting stylesheet with
the href's filled in.  They you would use that in a second
XSLT process on your document.  If you can keep
all that straight, it should work.  Or you could just run
a simple filter script on your stylesheet before applying it.

bobs
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