How is it possible to apply different styles/formatting to an xml
element in different parts of the XML document for a resulting FO
document.
For e.g. I have an element i.e. say - <SectionHeading>
Now of course the XSL Template that matches this element will apply
to the element.
How would it be possible to define different FO
style/block/layout/spacing to the XML elements of the same name in
different parts of the FO document that is to be created. (Eventually
to PDF).
I know that one way would be to change the XML element tag names to
something else and apply templates based on that.
But we want to MAINTAIN the documents "content" model. But want to be
able to apply varied types of styling by editing the XSLs.
One way I was thinking was to apply "modes" but that would mean that
I would have to add "modes" to the XML document.
Another one I was thinking was some kind of COUNT (like in a
programming language) where elements whose counts are within
different ranges are worked on by different formatting/layout blocks.
Of course my stylesheets would get really complicated.
Can someone suggest some ideas for this WITHOUT any changes to the
XML data and element model.
Please do let me know or point me to a tutorial/reference to do this
without complicating my stylesheet and life a lot.
Thanks in advance.
Abhishek Sanwal
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