Re: startMode available in XSLTProcessor

> and then an xsl which transforms it to a HTML table:-
> 
> <xsl:template match="/documents">
>     <table ...>
>         <thead><tr>
>             <th>
>             .
>             .
>             .
>             </th>
>         </tr></thead>
>         <tbody>
>             <xsl:apply-templates select="document" />
>         </tbody>
>     </table>
> <xsl:template>
> 
> all pretty standard stuff.  However at times I may want only the tbody.  So
> I add to the stylesheet this template:-
> 
> <xsl:template match="/documents" mode="tbodyOnly">
>     <tbody>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="document" />
>     </tbody>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Now on the MSXML processor object I set startMode = "tbodyOnly"  and this
> will get me the tbody only.
> 
> I was hoping to be able to use the XSL as is.  Clearly I can't.  I guess if
> I add a parameter and place a choose in the top template the XSL would
> continue to work with existing MSXML code where as in firefox I can add a
> parameter to acheive the same thing.

Basically you are putting two different stylesheets, or two different
transforms, into the same XSLT file. I take it the reason you're putting
these in the same XSLT file is that there are a bunch of templates that
are used in both transforms?

Using a startMode does work, but there is no API for it in mozilla.

> <xsl:template match="/documents">
>     <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="$startMode='tbodyOnly'">
>             <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="tbodyOnly" />
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:otherwise>
>             <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="full" />
>         </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
> <xsl:template>

Yup, this would work. Another way would be to create one XSLT file that
contains all the templates, and then create two separate XSLT files that
both <xsl:import> the templates stylesheet. That way you can use
different URIs for when you want just the body, and when you want the
whole thing.

Feel free to file a bug on adding a startMode property to the XSLT
processor though, as that should be simple enough to add.

> Would this work:-
> 
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="{$startMode}" />
> 
> if param defined as:-
> 
>     <xsl:param name="startMode">full</xsl:param>
> 
> I wonder ? hmm..

Nope, that will not work as 'mode' is not defined to use
attribute-value-templates.

/ Jonas