Re: [xsl] one or two stylesheets to output html and pdf(fo) fromthe same x ml source?

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm at yahoo dot de>]

Braumüller, Hans wrote:
> i am thinking to start to incorporate pdf - documents in a web application.
>
> So if the user click on the button pdf i want to display a pdf document
> transformed from the same xml-source, from which my sytlesheet have had
> generated the html page, he is using.
>
> My question is what is better to code in aspects of easy to use,
> optimization, loading time and maintenance, working with one stylesheet
> using different namespaces to output these two kinds of display or  coding
> two main separated stylesheets?
The usual approach is to use two different style sheets.
After all, you are adressing two different URLs.
Sometimes a pipelining approach as provided by Cocoon
can be an advantage: transform a bunch of documents
with a varying XML structure into an XML with some sort
of "display" structure and then transform this either
into HTML or XSLFO.

J.Pietschmann


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