Re: [xsl] Stylesheet composition

[Garvin Riensche <g.riensche@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You mean, first let stylesheet1 add the new elements:

<aaa>3</aaa>
<aaa>4</aaa>

than let stylesheet2 do the addition

<aaa>4</aaa>
<aaa>5</aaa>

and the add the first two <aaa> to get the desired result?

This might work for this simple example but if it gets more complex, for 
example if stylesheet1 does more than just simply adding these elements, 
I can't use the first stylesheet without applying it to the original source.

regards,
Garvin


> 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