Subject: RE: Feature Request: equivalent to DSSSL read-entity function From: Ed Nixon <ed.nixon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:24:06 -0500 |
Well. We've already had some comments with regard to the difficulty and inadvisability of messing with the source tree (I assume from the stand point of XSL, at least.) These comments have made sense to me. On the other hand, I can sure see the utility of assembling pieces of multiple, similarly structured documents, e.g., synopsis piece, author info, publication date, version, etc., into a unit that is then processed via XSL for presentation, with links, perhaps. But I wouldn't think it appropriate that this assembly process be done by XSL. It seems more of a mainstream query function that deserves its own, optimized tools. In general, I'm a bit puzzled about the best way of thinking about concurrently handling multiple documents in the context of DOM, SAX, XSL. Some work on this seems to be the MDSAX kit from JXML but I haven't looked at it in detail. Another approach, I presume, it to store the documents, either as indexed fragments a la POET or as parsed trees a la eXcelon. No free joy on this front however. Any other ideas or comments? (Perhaps this isn't appropriate for the XSL list, although multiple documents and changing the source tree do seem to recur as themes.) ...edN -----Original Message----- From: Borden, Jonathan [SMTP:jborden@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 1999 12:37 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Feature Request: equivalent to DSSSL read-entity function Let me add to this, what would be even better would be the ability to inject this external entity into the *source* XML tree for processing. This would allow the important ability to merge several XML documents together into an output document. Currently, this is done by pre-processing the XML documents into a merged document. Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of G. Ken Holman > Subject: Feature Request: equivalent to DSSSL read-entity function > > > In my training materials I would like to inject the text string equivalent > of the contents of an external file. By "text string > equivalent", I expect > the read function to translate characters matching the built-in entities > into entity references. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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