Siegfried Heintze wrote:

> So here is the XSL question:
> Is there a way I can pass a parameter (or something) so it will generate a 
> page tag, windows tag, or canvas tag so I don't have to maintain three 
> otherwise identical XSL files?

You can write stylesheet modules and compose them using xsl:include or 
xsl:import, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Combining-Stylesheets
That might already suffice to avoid having three huge, nearly identical 
stylesheets, instead you would simply put the identical part into a huge 
module and then write three other small ones that include or import the 
module.

If you want to work with a parameter then that is also possible, you can 
define a global parameter (e.g. root-name) in your stylesheet e.g.

   <xsl:stylesheet
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     version="1.0">

     <xsl:param name="root-name" select="'window'"/>

     <xsl:template match="/">
       <xsl:element name="{$root-name}">
         ...
       </xsl:element>
     </xsl:template>

     ...
   </xsl:stylesheet>

and then you would use a (processor specific) way to set the parameter 
root-name to e.g. 'window' or 'page' before you run the transformation.




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