Comments on: XSLT http://www.povert.com/2005/11/22/xslt/ It's Pronounced "Pah-vert." You povert. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scooter http://www.povert.com/2005/11/22/xslt/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Scooter Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:09:44 +0000 http://www.povert.com/2005/11/22/xslt/#comment-337 The css is usually applied sort of after the fact - that is to say, the XSL is used for making major structual changes to your XML/XHTML, including templating/recursion and scripted data manipulation, and then the css is used for adding UI features. An example - I have a chunk of XML data that I want to turn into a menu/navigation pane - I'm likely to turn it into X/HTML using XSL - divs, various tag names that I can key off of based on the data structure, etc. - and then use the CSS file to add colors, behaviors, borders, etc. Of course, you can overlap - put some of your javascript in the XSL, put in actual HTML tags other than simple divs and apply colors/etc. - but separating anything that changes the actual display is preferential so you can swap it out later with a simple stylesheet name change if you like. You can apply the CSS w/in your XSL, so you can parameterize what CSS gets applied. Works nicely - this one, below, isn't parameterized, but you could just replace Test.css w/a parameter (as an example). stylesheet Test.css The css is usually applied sort of after the fact – that is to say, the XSL is used for making major structual changes to your XML/XHTML, including templating/recursion and scripted data manipulation, and then the css is used for adding UI features. An example – I have a chunk of XML data that I want to turn into a menu/navigation pane – I’m likely to turn it into X/HTML using XSL – divs, various tag names that I can key off of based on the data structure, etc. – and then use the CSS file to add colors, behaviors, borders, etc. Of course, you can overlap – put some of your javascript in the XSL, put in actual HTML tags other than simple divs and apply colors/etc. – but separating anything that changes the actual display is preferential so you can swap it out later with a simple stylesheet name change if you like. You can apply the CSS w/in your XSL, so you can parameterize what CSS gets applied. Works nicely – this one, below, isn’t parameterized, but you could just replace Test.css w/a parameter (as an example).

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