Subject: Re: Structured metadata within XSLT? From: Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:38:25 +0000 |
Ed Staub wrote: > > Thanks, Francis. > > > first XSLT seems to ignore non-XSLT elements within the template element > > I must misunderstand you; normal behavior is to output non-XSLT elements > within a template. Can you give a sample? Err, that was meant to be the *stylesheet* element - there was an involuntary transformation between brain and keyboard... > > I think the "extension element / fallback" solution is probably better, > because it can be used virtually anywhere, binding metadata tightly to what > it describes. Yes, it probably is better - when I hopped into this thread I'd forgotten that David Carlisle and others had already investigated the area. > > The context is one in which there is a rich set of stylesheets with lots of > templates of the "call-template" variety. > > The "hot button" is to be able to tag templates of the "call-template" > variety with metadata describing their usage, for use by authoring tools in > both automatically selecting appropriate templates and offering "tips" about > their usage. > > A Javadoc-like facility would be very cool also. > So now all you need to do is come up with an XML grammar for your metadata. I'd be interested in trying this in RDF as a tutorial exercise... Francis. -- Francis Norton. why not? XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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