RE: About multiple output documents from a single XML/SGML processed document

[DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

 Didier PH Martin wrote:

>The proposal on the table is to add a new characteristic to the
>simple-page-sequence object to allow the creation of a new 
>flow object tree
>(i.e. a new output document). The characteristic could be called:
>
>output-file-name: "name.xxx" This characteristic value is a 
>string. The new
>document name is appended to the actual output directory path 
>(ex: c:\my
>dir1\dir2\name.xxx" or "usr/data/dir1/dir2/name.xxx")
>
>The behavior would be that each time a simple-page-sequence is 
>"made", and
>that this latter has the "output-file-name" characteristic set 
>to a name
>then a new flow object tree is created and a new output file too (this
>latter receives the object flow tree). If this characteristic 
>is absent,
>then no new output file is created. This characteristic is 
>solely reserved
>to the simple-page-sequence object.

Yes, that's OK, though I find it less intuitive than
the characteristics we have already.
If the new file naming mechanism works, why not make
use of it, then the characteristic could be from the 
familiar,

break-before: 'file

As you describe, but the file name is incremented
as you describe.

Might be simpler?

regards, DaveP


 DSSSList info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist