Structuring Stylesheets
We've looked at a couple of examples and some basic concepts. I'll now wrap up this portion of the chapter with a few more general issues before looking at some specific techniques you will find useful. One of these general issues relates to the way we structure our stylesheets.
A stylesheet can have more than one xsl:template. In fact, this is probably the norm. In the rule-based programming paradigm, templates can be applied from other templates in a fashion similar to expanding the nonterminal symbols in BNF. In a procedural paradigm, we can break out certain types of processing into a template and call it in much the same way we might call a function in C. We can even pass parameters to an xsl:template, similar to ...
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