What you are doing is very much within the mainstream of what XSLT is
designed for. Just go ahead and do it.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tpass001 [mailto:tpass001@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 July 2004 14:28
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  templates/themes/look-and-feel - suggestions needed
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions please?
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using xslt to transform xml into html and other 
> formats for a while
> on
> > a project.
> >
> > The brass now needs a way to easily change the look and 
> feel of the webapp
> > as pluggable themes. I use a central stylesheet for css 
> bindings, so all
> xsl
> > files call on this css file.
> >
> > What I was thinking of doing was pass a parameter to my xsl 
> files whose
> > value would be the theme name to use, where theme name would be the
> > directory where the image files and css files are located. 
> What this would
> > involve on my part is to manually go to each xsl file and change
> >
> > <img src="../images/view.gif" title="View"/>
> >
> > to
> >
> > <img title="View"><xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of
> > select="$theme"/>view.gif</xsl:attribute></img>
> >
> > where $theme=../images or any theme directory. and is an 
> input parameter
> to
> > the stylesheet, provided externally.
> >
> > I have been searching on the internet all morning trying to 
> see if anyone
> > has done this. Maybe I was not searching on the right 
> words, but I would
> > appreciate your thoughts on this as well as links if you 
> know of any.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > TP.