[xsl] Is it possible to nest templates? If not, how to combine the outpu

Hi,

 

Processor: Xalan 2.7.0 on Windows

xsl1: I have a template that goes through xml topics to create troff
output. 
xsl2: I also have another xml file that has attributes such as product
name and version that I want to be able to include when processing the
xml topics in 1. I have created a separate stylesheet to do this. 
 

Issue: How do I combine both stylesheets so that in xsl1 I can retrieve
the values in index.xml?

When I try to nest templates, it does not work.  When I try to include
this stylesheet with another template, index.xml gets overwritten and
becomes blank. If I don't use template match="/", nothing works.  

Any ideas?

Xsl2: (works just fine from the command-line by itself)

<?xml version="1.0"?>

 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 

                 version="1.0"

                 xmlns:redirect="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/redirect";

                 extension-element-prefixes="redirect">

     

<redirect:open file="index.xml"/><xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:variable name="product"><xsl:value-of
select="/names/prodname"/></xsl:variable>

          <xsl:variable name="versions"> <xsl:value-of
select="/names/prodversion"/></xsl:variable>

     

<xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="$product"/></xsl:message>

          <xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="$versions"/></xsl:message>

</xsl:template>

<redirect:close file="index.xml"/>

 </xsl:stylesheet>

 

 

In xsl1, I want to be able to open the file that has the right
attributes, and include the information when generating the topics in
xsl1. 

Xsl1. This is what I'm trying to do and it does not work. How do I not
use template match="/"? How do I include one template within another?

 

 

<xsl:template name="set-date">

<redirect:open file="index.xml"/><xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:variable name="product"><xsl:value-of
select="/names/prodname"/></xsl:variable>

          <xsl:variable name="versions"> <xsl:value-of
select="/names/prodversion"/></xsl:variable>

     

<xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="$product"/></xsl:message>

          <xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="$versions"/></xsl:message>

</xsl:template>

<redirect:close file="index.xml"/>

 

  <xsl:choose>

    <xsl:when test="$OUTFORMAT='plaintext'"><xsl:value-of
select="$newline"/></xsl:when>

    <xsl:when test="$OUTFORMAT='troff' or $OUTFORMAT='nroff'">

                 <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>.ds ]W %<xsl:value-of
select="$newline"/>

                 <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>.ds ]L<xsl:value-of
select="$newline"/>

                 <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>.hy 0<xsl:value-of
select="$newline"/>

                 <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>.nh<xsl:value-of
select="$newline"/>

                 <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>.na<xsl:value-of
select="$newline"/>

                 <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>.TH  <xsl:value-of
select="$newline"/>    

                 <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/><xsl:value-of
select="date:month-name()"/>

                 <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="date:year()"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text>

               </xsl:when>   

    </xsl:choose>

    

</xsl:template>

 

Hope you can help, thanks a lot,

 

Carla

 




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