Re: [xsl] Re: Dreamweaver XSL Tranforms

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Anderson wrote:
> I just took a look at the link from Abel. Most of it makes no sense to
> me (I'm not a developer, so I can't do builds, etc.
>
> Anyone got any ideas how to enable this ICU support with Xalan on
> Windows XP (for Dreamweaver)?

I believe this may be tougher than at first sight. A little research 
shows that Dreamweaver gives you little options in setting anything 
other than the defaults for the Xalan processor. Harder yet: there is 
hardly any mention of the processor being Xalan.

Dreamweaver uses the Xalan-C dll file. You cannot inform Dreamweaver to 
use any other processor, nor can you change the way it is called (well, 
perhaps a little bit, lookup PIB_Dynamic.js, but I am uncertain if you 
want to hack your way through that file). I cannot but conclude that 
Dreamweaver is severely lacking any options for you to customize its 
behavior with regards to XSLT processing.

If you like Dreamweaver, use it, but you'll have to live with its lack 
of support. But consider using something else for your production 
environment, because this severe lack of configuration possibilities 
makes it far from ideal. Letting Dreamweaver use ICU is perhaps 
possible, but it will be way easier to create a tiny plugin in 
Dreamweaver which calls the Saxon parser (or any other for that matter) 
when you click Preview.

I'm sorry I can't be of more help,

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma