Re: [xsl] What is the best approach for doing.....

Subject: Re: [xsl] What is the best approach for doing.....
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:06:49 +0100
  In order to update the cross referencing, can I just take the html out 
  of the editor, reprocess it and pass it back?
...
  Does that make sense?

In general editing an XML source by editing its transformed view (eg
html) is clearly not possible although in some constrained cases this is
doable. Without knowing the input format and how constrained the editor
is, it's hard to know if it makes sense.

The cross referencing techniques supplied in this thread all involve
querying the original XML, so if the user is editing the generated 
html in a sufficiently large way that cross referencing numbers will
change (as opposed to just changing fonts and layout, etc) then you
have to somehow propagate those changes back to the original source.
this is doable perhaps in special cases but it's a much harder problem
than the problem you asked at the beginning of the thread, about
generating cross reference texts.

David



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