Fw: Formal parameters for stylesheets

["Oren Ben-Kiki" <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Diamond <sendangels@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>A processor could actually support parameters without changing the spec. If
a
>user did something like this on the command line:
>
>xt -Dfoo=bar test.xml test.xsl
>
>The processor could interpret that as inserting a:
>
><xsl:constant name="foo" value="bar"/>
>
>into the stylesheet. Maybe a {parameter(foo)} function would actually help
so
>that users don't confuse the two concepts, though.


If this is done, not only should that be "{parameter(foo)}", but there
should be an explicit declaration:

<xsl:parameter name="foo" default="..."/>

Somewhere in the stylesheet. Otherwise all hell would break loose when
combining stylesheets, writing GUI for XSL processors, doing DTD
verifications...

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    Oren Ben-Kiki


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