Re: Doubt in using <A> within XSL

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ "eduardo.gutentag" <Eduardo.Gutentag@xxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
[...]
| > server, maybe I'll have to maintain my source as dozens of
| > separate XML documents.  Linked together with XLinks?
| 
| Hm, I don't know if that's the right question, Norm. Seems to
| me that it boils down to whether XSL is a server-side
| style-sheet language (a la Jade, or rather, like Jade can be
| used), or a client-side one. If the latter, which I believe is
| how the current submission approaches it, 

I agree with you that the current work on XSL is focused on the
client side attachement of style (and that's where I think it
should be focused).  

| the chunking should be done at the server-side,

This is another possible approach to the problem.  I had
suggested that the chunks would be maintained on the server, but
I think you're suggesting that the document be maintained on the
server as one (or several) large units and that the server
should send only the appropriate chunk.

| but that brings up the issue of how the style sheet is then
| supposed to traverse the tree when all it has is a bit of a
| chunk to work on.

It would seem to me that in this case the server is going to
have to send additional information.  Perhaps a <chapter> on the
server becomes a <chapter-chunk> when sent by the server, with
additional metadata stuck at the top to indicate the titles and
URIs of preceding and next chunks, pointers to the TOC, etc.?
Since we can represent this data as well-formed XML, we can still
use XSL to style it.

--norm


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