Are you sure it isn't feasible to express the rules directly as match
patterns?
<xsl:template match="citation/name[position() gt 2 and position() lt 6]">
<renderas font-style="italic">et al.</renderas>
</xsl:template>
(I know that example doesn't work, but you get the idea).
Alternatively I've seen this sort of thing done by applying dyn:evaluate to
XPath expressions held in a rule table:
<interest when=". gt xs:date('2004-01-01') and . le xs:date('2004-05-12')"
value="5.5"/>
The way you're tackling it, you're going to need to build those expressions
before evaluating them - I wonder if that's really necessary?
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce D'Arcus [mailto:bdarcus(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 23 May 2005 02:28
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] configuring a conditional
In my XSLT, I need to configure formatting for so-called "et al."
handling in citations; e.g. (Smith et al. 1999). Sometimes this gets
quite complicated, such that I've settled on this sort of config
markup:
<multi-name-replace>
<rule when-more-than="2" and-less-than="6"
and-position="subsequent"
use-first="1"/>
<rule when-more-than="6" and-position="first" use-first="1"/>
<renderas font-style="italic">et al.</renderas>
</multi-name-replace>
Now my question is, how would I actually implement this in
the XSLT? I
can't rely on the and-less-than attribute to present, nor even the
entire multi-name element.
Or is there a better way to make the markup suitable for
transformation
(it's my schema, so I can make it whatever I want!)?
Bruce
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