Hi all,

I am writing a stylesheets for different journal (basically for
print), wherein the order of authors, titles etc varies (<ref-book>
here)depending upon the <journalcode>.

Manipulating data, adding issue is not seems to be problem to me and I
can very much do that, while checking the <journalcode> string with
the use of XSLT, but I am little bit stuck with Idea how to do it in
best way.

I have hundreds of journals for which I am developing stylesheet and
they are very much same till the reference part and the only which
differentiate them is reference style (which are 4 or 5 in count).
Somebody, from publishing industry will definitely understand this
:-).

Anyways, Is there any way I can do it with in same style sheet with
conditionally checking the <journalcode>, instead of defining the . I
am new in XSLT but I am OK with XPath, so I believe I can do this.

You may detect the different journal codes using simple tests and then
branch into different modes to process accordingly.

I don't know if this is the best approach. Its viability may depend
on how much reshaping is required for your different journal codes.

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

 <xsl:template match="article[ .//journalcode = 'CEDE' ]">
  <xsl:comment>CEDE</xsl:comment>
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates mode="CEDE"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="article[ .//journalcode = 'EHEF' ]">
  <xsl:comment>EHEF</xsl:comment>
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates mode="EHEF"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <!-- join authorfield, year, chaptitle, booktitle -->
 <xsl:template match="ref-book" mode="CEDE">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="authorfield"/>
   <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
   <xsl:apply-templates select=".//year"/>
   <xsl:text>. </xsl:text>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="chaptitle"/>
   <xsl:text>, In: </xsl:text>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="booktitle"/>
   <xsl:apply-templates mode="CEDE"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 <!-- omit these -->
 <xsl:template match="authorfield | year | chaptitle | booktitle"
  mode="CEDE"/>

 <!-- do special stuff for EHEF -->
 <!-- ... -->

 <!-- Maybe sufficient for all journal codes? -->
 <xsl:template match="author-ref">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="givenname"/>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="surname"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="@*|node()" mode="EHEF">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" mode="EHEF"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="@*|node()" mode="CEDE">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" mode="CEDE"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>