Subject: [xsl] Re: xslt 3.0 possible feature - some sort of collection to help when streaming From: "Vladimir Nesterovsky" <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:08:28 +0200 |
xsl:iterate works but it's limited to a single level of iteration, as this way one cannot easily collect output from nested transformations.
I read Andrew Welch's request as a wish to have a way to produce multiple intermediate outputs at once.
Indeed, during transformation you can consume many (intermediate) inputs. It would be symmetric to expect multiple (intermediate) outputs. -- Vladimir Nesterovsky http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com/
The approach in the spec to this kind of requirement is the xsl:iterate instruction. Instead of using xsl:message to output the data that you want to process at the end, you append it to a sequence which is passed as a parameter to each iteration of xsl:iterate, and it's then available for processing at the end using xsl:on-completion. We're adding support for maps to the language with this use case very much in mind; it makes it easier to accumulate more complex data on your single streamed pass through the input.
Michael Kay Saxonica
On 10/03/2011 18:28, Andrew Welch wrote:Hi,
Often we 'hack' xsl:message to output some information to post process later, and it struck me that it would be useful to have a way of accessing what has been sent to xsl:message during the same transform. This would be especially useful when streaming, as processing the data twice for different purposes is less than ideal.
For example, you for-each over some data but want to also do something with @names later:
<xsl:for-each select="/millions/and/millions">
[ process each item ]
<xsl:message select="concat('Processed ', @name)"/> </xsl:for-each>
then later in the same template, say to create an index or list of links:
<xsl:for-each select="get-messages()">
[ process the items stored earlier 'Processed name1' , 'Processed name2' etc ]
Is there anything conceptually wrong with this, other than the non-guaranteed order of processing? If not, then it could be a proper instruction rather than xsl:message, eg a top-level element to set it up:
<xsl:appender name="someAppender" option1="foo" option2="bar"/>
with:
<xsl:append name="someAppender"> text to append</xsl:append>
and then to access it:
get-appender('someAppender')
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