[Lazy Vulpes]

First of all I would like to make sure that I have the correct understanding of the difference between transformation and formatting. Transformation is adding e.g. a p tag around your text? Formatting is e.g. making the text red?

In my current cms project I've decided to have static content saved in xml files.

e.g.

<welcome_text>
Hello and welcome to LazyVulpes.com Here you can do stuff.
</welcome_text>

Implementing this text is fairly easy using xslt, but what if I want "LazyVulpes.com" to be a orange link?

Should my xml be something like this?

<welcome_text>
Hello and welcome to <link location="http://www.lazyvulpes.com/" color="orange">LazyVulpes.com</link> Here you can do stuff.
</welcome_text>

And if so, how do I add the a element and use xsl-fo to make the link text orange?

Also, what if I just want it to be orange and not a link, can I do this without adding any tags around it? If a tag is always required to add extra styling to a inline text, why use xsl-fo at all?

Is there any reason to use both xsl-fo and css? xsl-fo for formatting and css for positioning?

This post has been edited by Lazy Vulpes: 20 July 2012 - 10:21 PM

[Lazy Vulpes]

I'm starting to realize that this is more a question about xpath functions.. I think I need to use

contains(string1,string2)
substring-before(string1,string2)
substring-after(string1,string2)

But I'm really unsure on how to use these..

All in all I want the outputs like this.

<p>some <b>text</b></p>

from a XML source like this

<text>some <bold>text</bold></text>

or this

<text>some [b]text[/b]</text>