Kris,
Have you considered Eric van der Vlist's idea of "style-free
stylesheets" [1] [2]? I've used this technique in several projects. The
main benefit is that you can give the (pure) HTML template to a graphic
designer while you concentrate on the "code" (XSLT). It's really MVC for
XSLT, where XML is the model, HTML template the view, and XSLT the
controller.
Cheers,
Antony
[1] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/07/26/xslt/xsltstyle.html (original
article)
[2]
http://eric.van-der-vlist.com/blog/2368_The_influence_of_microformats_on_style-free_stylesheets.item
(update)
Kris Leech wrote:
Hello, What is the best way to setup a XHTML templating system so that I
have the concept of outer layout template and inner view template.
The outer layout would contain the usual header, footer & navigation
div's that would be same on every page.
The inner view would be the template that actually transformed the XML
data, and so different for every page.
I can think of a few ways to do this myself (below), is there a standard
or commonly used way of doing this?
Are there any gotcha's in my reasoning below, other than that they both
require creating a temporary file which would need a random filename.
1.) Append the 'view' template under the 'layout' template to make a
temporary file
[FILE]
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>This is the layout</h2> <xsl:apply-templates/> </body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="content">
<h3>This the view</h3>
<xsl:value-of select="/a"/>
<xsl:value-of select="/b"/>
</xsl:template>
[/FILE]
Using this method the XML would need to constructed in such a way that
there was a root node containing a content node.
2.) The 'layout' template has an include/import. The problem is the
filename of the 'view' template is different every time so I would
either need to parse the layout template for the include filename and
replace it with the correct one, again this would involve creating a
temporary file.
[FILE]
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>This is the layout</h2> <xsl:include href="view.xsl" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
[/FILE]
[FILE]
<h3>This the view</h3>
<xsl:value-of select="/a"/>
<xsl:value-of select="/b"/>
[/FILE]
By the way how do relative paths work in includes are they relative to
the template with the include?
Many thanks, K.
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