Special Edition Using XSLT

Further Customizing Dynamic Documents

So far, this example doesn’t do much other than generate the standard style sheet for the document in question. Still, on a large project that might have dozens of style sheets, that alone might be a large benefit. However, once you automatically generate the style sheet, there are many customizations you might make.

For example, consider this portion of the style-sheet–generation code:

if element.getAttribute(“ref”) = “headline” then 
   cssStyle = “BoxCopy” 
else 
   cssStyle = element.getAttribute(“ref”) 
end if 

Here, the headline element gets a special style (BoxCopy). Of course, you could simply make a style sheet entry for the headline type and omit this special processing. But what if you wanted to selectively ...