At 2009-09-04 09:54 -0700, Bill French wrote:
>Thanks for your reply, Ken. So an importing stylesheet doesn't 
>respect priorities assigned explicitly in imported stylesheets?

"Respect"?  I wouldn't use that word ... it is just that there are 
two concepts:  priority and importance ... and importance trumps priority.

The reason XSLT has both <xsl:import> and <xsl:include> is that 
<xsl:import> introduces a new level of importance while <xsl:include> 
uses the same level of importance (thus risking collisions).

>I.e., if in stylesheet A.xsl, I have
>
><xsl:template match="ElemName">
>   DO THIS
></xsl:template>
>
>and in stylesheet B.xsl I have
>
><xsl:template match="node()" priority="-1">
>   DO THAT
></xsl:template>
>
>and then I run the stylesheet C.xsl which looks like
>
><xsl:import href="A.xsl"/>
><xsl:import href="B.xsl"/>
>
>any element called elemName (and any other, for that matter, if we 
>stick with just the XSL upstairs) is going to DO THAT instead of DOING THIS.

Since you are using "node()" it would DO THAT for *every* node in the 
tree, not just element nodes.

If you used <xsl:include> above instead of <xsl:import> you would get 
"DO THIS" for <ElemName> because they would both be at the same level 
of importance.

>This seems to be what David Carlisle was explaining in his post 
>archived  on David Pawson's XSLT FAQ: 
>http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N4738.html#d6607e353

Indeed it is.  I tell my students that <xsl:import> is for tweaking 
stylesheets using introduced levels of importance while <xsl:include> 
is for modularizing stylesheets at the same level of importance.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

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