Subject: Re: Doubt in using <A> within XSL From: "eduardo.gutentag" <Eduardo.Gutentag@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 19:11:36 -0700 (PDT) |
>----- Begin Included Message -----< Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 15:34:25 -0400 From: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Doubt in using <A> within XSL To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > / "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). We're in agreement. > > | 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. Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. > > | 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.? Yep - and a good hard look at Sgmlopen's TR on fragments (I don't remember the number) would probably be very helpful too. Eduardo > Since we can represent this data as well-formed XML, we can still > use XSL to style it. > > --norm > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list >----- End Included Message -----< XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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