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

Regards,