Re: [xsl] template's match-set ? (feature request?)

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Rob,

A pretty easy workaround to give you what you want is to adapt an 
"architectural forms" approach.

So your match might look like:

<xsl:template match="*[@form='content-piece']" mode="mode-1">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

and in your schema you assign an attribute @form with a fixed value of 
'content-piece' to every element you want processed this way.

Consider it a kind of poor-man's element typing.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 08:40 AM 9/6/2002, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [forgive me if this is already available. if so, what is it called?]
>
> I was looking for the following functionality in the draft for XSLT2, but 
> could
> not find it. It seems like it is possible.
>
> Anyway, what I want to do is have a 'match-set' (sort of like attribute-set)
> that I can 'use-match-set' on various templates with different modes.
>
> For example:
>
> <xsl:match-set name="content-pieces">
>   <xsl:match name="article"/>
>   <xsl:match name="faq"/>
>   <xsl:match name="job"/>
> </xsl:match-set>
>
> <xsl:template use-match-set="content-pieces" mode="mode-1">
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template use-match-set="content-pieces" mode="mode-2">
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template use-match-set="content-pieces" mode="mode-n">
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> This would be useful to me because I am occiasionally adding new tags to my
> schema that work the same in the XSLT, in many cases.
>
> Does this exist in some other way? Is this a reasonable request if it does 
> not?

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