RE: [xsl] nested templates?

["Chris Bayes" <Chris at Bayes dot co dot uk>]

>is it possible to construct an xslt stylesheet that is more similar to a
>"complete" page, i.e. with nested templates:
>

no

>(btw, this is not syntactically complete, but you get the idea :)
>
><xsl:stylesheet>
>
><!-- template -->
><xsl:template match="/*">
>    <!-- top level -->
>    <div align="center">
>
>    <!-- folder -->
>    <xsl:template match="folder">
>    <a href="/"><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></a><br />
>        <!-- item -->
>        <xsl:template match="folder/*">
>        <a class="subnav">
>        <xsl:attribute name="href">
>            <xsl:value-of select="href" />
>        </xsl:attribute>
>        <xsl:value-of select="href" />
>        </a><br />
>        </xsl:template>
>        <xsl:apply-templates/>
>        <!-- /item -->
>    <p/>
>    </xsl:template>
>    <xsl:apply-templates/>
>    <!-- /folder -->
>
>    </div>
>    <!-- /top level -->
></xsl:template>
><!-- template -->
>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>The above seems to be illegal, though I can't think of a good reason why.
>
i've often wondered that myself
it would get around a lot of problems and avoid a lot of cases where you
need to use modes

>The idea here is for me to be able to continue building template files, etc
>the way I am used to doing it (and, indeed, the way I think it should be
>done).
>
>I'm finding the "template for every element in a list" thing fairly
>annoying, and I want a good way of getting around it.
>
>---
>
>A related question:
>    -Can I import another xsl at runtime to handle a template operation for
>me? Say I have an element <field> that I want to transform into an html
><input type="foo"> tag, and I'd like to select that element (<field>) and
>pass it off to another template. I suppose I could write a php-helper to do
>this, but that seems kludgey to me.
>
yes you can
look at apply-imports etc.

Ciao Chris

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