Re: [xsl] Invoking XSLT 2.0

["Rashmi Rubdi" <rashmi.sub@xxxxxxxxx>]

Abel,

Thank you for the additional info.

On 4/26/07, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rashmi Rubdi wrote:
> >
> > I guess invoking a standalone stylesheet on a named template within it
> > makes sense because a styesheet can have multiple templates.
> >
>
> There is no necessity for having multiple templates. My own primary
> reason for using "-it templatename" is that in our production
> environment, we never use the default input, instead some configuration
> file is passed on by system property, which in turn contains some
> catalog-style references to the sources, which are then read in with
> fn:unparsed-text() (we use XSLT for importing structured text, not XML,
> which cannot be the principal input).

In the above case I think the named template would be equivalent to
the main() method, because a main() method can be called from the
command line. I am trying to shift my thinking slowly to declarative
programming but sometimes I try to relate with what I already know.

I see your point about processing non-XML input.

> Other usages are a stylesheet that does not need any input (or only some
> parameters), i.e., a calculation stylesheet, or the 99-bottles problem,
> or a stylesheet that summarizes the online traffic jams by url. Neither
> need have multiple primary named templates, but do require an initial
> template (well, "require" is too strong a word).

The above is good to know, thank you.

> Cheers,
> -- Abel Braaksma

-Rashmi