RE: Simple API for XSL?

[Tim McCune <timm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went ahead and wrote an interface that lets us switch XSL processors by
changing one line of code.  The interface is pretty simple so far:

public String process(Document xml, String stylesheetName) throws
XSLProcessorImplException;

I then wrote implementations of this interface for LotusXSL and XSLP.  What
other methods would be useful in such an interface?

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Marius Garshol

What should the API do here? What kind of functionality should it have?

I can see some possibilities that might be both useful and practical:

 - starting the processing
 - receiving error events
 - some way of accessing the result tree (AFAIK first proposed by Paul
 Prescod on the Python XML-SIG mailing list a couple of days ago).
 This might take the form of SAX events or a DOM tree.

This idea probably has some merit, since it would make it far easier
to embed existing XSL processors as components in larger processing
frameworks and applications.


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