Last week I did another project where I used embedded markup in my
XSLT to document the XSLT. And, again, I used the vocabulary of the
markup being processed by the XSLT to document the XSLT, thus
recursively, calling the stylesheet being documented to present the
stylesheet documentation.
When I previously announced this [1] I talked about doing it for
stylesheets for the Intelligence Community Metadata Standards for
Publication, where I used the IC vocabulary as the embedded
vocabulary documenting the stylesheets that interpreted the IC
vocabulary for rendering. In effect, each stylesheet fragment's
stylesheet association processing instruction pointed to the top of
the stylesheet tree and recursively called itself to document itself.
I noticed this time, however, that by turning the XSLT import tree
inside out, I could put the vocabulary-specific constructs at the top
of the import tree and then the import sub-tree can remain
sacrosanct, read-only, and cross-vocabulary. So, last week I
restructured the XSLStyle environment for embedding DocBook and now I
can reuse the vocabulary-independent bits for other vocabularies
without having to make any changes to the shared components.
For those who have downloaded XSLStyle before, to use the update you
will have to change to which stylesheet fragment you are pointing in
order to engage the new inverted import tree ... otherwise you get
the same benefit of formatted documentation and enforcing stylesheet
writing rules you choose to impose in this environment.
To download XSLStyle, go to the free resources link on the right side
of our home page, and it is in section 3.2 in the free XSLT resources.
I hope people find this helpful.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
[1] http://www.xslt.com/html/xsl-list/2005-10/msg00535.html
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