Subject: RE: Formal parameters for stylesheets From: "Borden, Jonathan" <jborden@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:53:25 -0500 |
I second both these 'requirements'. Perhaps the XSL parameters could be via a PI? e.g. <?xml-stylesheet-parameters a="b" c="d" ?> > > > Getting a couple of things off of my chest: > > -- > > XSL stylesheets should be able to take formal parameters that control > their behavior. Those parameters could be specified on the command line, > in a browse dialog or in the stylesheet association link/processing > instruction. > > DSSSL specifications almost always take formal parameters but the hacks > that people have invented to allow them are all ...er... gross. People do > things like automatically generating stylesheet bits, changing their > document instance and so forth. That's ingenuity but it isn't what we > should be forced to do. > > The only one that is not gross is overriding the value of a variable from > outside. The problem with that mechanism is that there is no way that a > GUI or command line tool can know which variables are supposed to be > overriden and which ones are not. They just must "trust the user." It also > means that a GUI cannot *prompt* for the appropriate paramaters. > > --- > > Let me also point out that it is absolutely vital that XSL be able to work > with a hyperlinked web of document trees. One document at a time is NOT > good enough by any stretch of the imagination. (similar hacks must be > divised to work around this limitation in transformation languages that > exhibit it) > > Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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