Subject: Re: [xsl] Stylesheet composition From: Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:18:07 -0500 |
Hi, Why not simply add your principal source content after stylesheet1 and 2 do their work? best, -Rob On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 18:42 +0100, Garvin Riensche wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently thinking about the limitations of stylesheet > compositions. As far as I know stylesheets can run after another where > the subsequent one might work on the complete result of the precesding > one (using temporary trees). I think it is impossible to let the second > stylesheet run only on the data the first one added to the source xml > without changing the stylesheets. Let me pose an example: > > XML: > <aaa>1</aaa> > <aaa>2>/aaa> > > Stylesheet1 just adds some more <aaa> to the source, so that the xml > after the transformation looks like: > > <aaa>1</aaa> > <aaa>2</aaa> > <aaa>3</aaa> > <aaa>4</aaa> > > Stylesheet2 matches the "aaa" elements and applies some transformation, > e.g. an addition, plus one, so that the output would be: > > <aaa>2</aaa> > <aaa>3</aaa> > <aaa>4</aaa> > <aaa>5</aaa> > > My question is the following: Is it possible, without changing > stylesheet1 or stylesheet2, to let stylesheet2 run only on the elements > stylesheet1 has added, so that the output would look like: > > <aaa>1</aaa> > <aaa>2</aaa> > <aaa>4</aaa> > <aaa>5</aaa> > ? > > If this is not possible, would this be something the XML community is > interested in? > I think it would be nice to have some kind of operator that would tell > the second stylesheet if it should work on the complete result of the > first one or only on the added elements. > > Has someone already done any research about the limitations of > stylesheet composition and proposed an improvement? Or is the XML > community just fine with current facilities of stylesheet composition? > > regards, > Garvin Riensche
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