Subject: Re: [xsl] Things that make you go Hmmmm! From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:39:11 +0000 |
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Abel Braaksma (Exselt) <abel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2) the use-attribute-sets attribute > One answer suffices to illustrate my point which has got nothing to do with undestanding or not understanding the semantics of copy and copy-of. > This one is on xsl:copy, because xsl:copy allows the children to be > modified. The addition of use-attribute-sets serves the use-cases where > you want to replace or augment the attributes on a certain element. > > It is not available on xsl:copy-of because the semantics of xsl:copy-of > are different: it makes an unchangeable deep-copy of the selected node. > Allowing use-attribute-sets would change that semantics, which is a bad > idea. If you want to change the children, use xsl:copy, not xsl:copy-of. > You have an option use-attribute-sets makes no sense in the context of xsl:copy-of. So if it appears you just ignore it, perhaps with a warning perhaps not. You leave the content models the same and you only ever apply the options that make sense for the variant you have chosen and you only step in if what is specified would lead to an unresolvable ambiguity. This is not an alien concept. Take as an example the utility cURL. If I don't want the body of my http request I specify HEAD instead of GET. curl -v --request HEAD "http://www.guardian.com" If I specify the content-type of the body with the --header option curl -v --request HEAD "http://www.guardian.com" --header "Content-Type:text/xml" There is no need to burden the user with a bazillion different signatures or to officiously refuse to cooperate until the parameters supplied are are in perfect semantic harmony. cURL can still figure out what I want, it's still a HEAD request and it still works.
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