Re: Write once layout everwhere (?)

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

Quoting nico <nicolas.marsgui@libertysurf.fr>:

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:42:23 -0400, Aditya Mahajan 
> <adityam@umich.edu>  wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I had not looked at them and some of the things about handling
>> at the ConTeXt end are more clear now. But I think that I did not
>> explain my question correctly.
>>
>> What I do not understand how are abbreviations etc. handled by xslt for
>> conversion into html. For example, how do I write an xsl style sheet
>> that converts this xml input
>>
>> <abbreviation value="EECS", short="EECS", full="Electrical Engineering
>> and Computer Science" />
>>
>> <p> I study <abbrev value="EECS"> which stands for <abbrev
>> value="EECS", infull="yes"> </p>
>>
>> into html as
>>
>> <p> I study EECS which stands for Electrical Engineering and Computer
>> Science </p>
>>
>> I know that this is not the right list to ask this sort of questions,
>> but I am hoping that there are xml users here and they will be able to
>> point me to the right direction.
>
> I haven't followed the thread, but attached an idea of doing what you 
> want  with XSLT. Note that your example is not valid at all (commas 
> between  attributes, missing ending '/' for empty elements).

Thank you. This is exactly what I wanted. I will now go back to using 
xml for simple documents and see how things go.

> BTW, it's not a good  idea to use the same attribute ("value") as an 
> reference identifier, and  for referencing to another element.

Ok. I will keep this in mind.

Thanks,
Aditya
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