Re: AW: [xsl] looping through Elements stored in a variable..

Subject: Re: AW: [xsl] looping through Elements stored in a variable..
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:38:26 -0500
Hans,

Ah, well, my simple example is a stylesheet process I've been working on that must, after transformation, create SGML output....

To do this, not only do I have to do some of the usual tricks (force empty elements into start-tag and end-tag notation, etc.), but also pay special attention to the serializing. Since the downstream processes aren't guaranteed to hack UTF-8, there's a character mapping stage including a resort to disable-output-escaping to force the correct representations of characters (the SGML wants named entities).

Stage two could be rolled into stage one, but it doesn't have to be. Essentially their tasks are very different: the first is a true transform, the second just a post-process that happens to be implemented using an XSLT engine. They involve different dependencies: the first is Pure XSLT, the second relies on a backend serializer supporting certain features like plain ASCII output (and d-o-e). They also involve separate maintenance issues (e.g. the character mapping in the second phase has to be extensible).

If at some point the need to create SGML goes away, the second process can simply be abandoned. Since in this case there's no benefit to rolling the two processes together (performance or other constraints not being an issue in this case), we're leaving them separate.

At 07:03 AM 11/22/2002, you wrote:
Thank you all for your input making this forum possible.

Sure! but all I do is hang around giving my opinions: it's Tommie who does the real work at mulberrytech. :->


Cheers,
Wendell


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