Re: multiple output files/getting command-line parameters in XT

[eduardo <Eduardo.Gutentag@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:25:03 +0000 (GMT)
>  To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Subject: multiple output files/getting command-line parameters in XT
>  
>  Obviously it is not standard, but how, using XT, can I find the name
>  of my output file? If I do
>  
>    java com.jclark.xsl.sax.Driver a.xml a.xsl a.html
>  
>  then in "a.xsl" I am using James' extension to split "a.xml" into several
>  parts. Naturally, I can make references _between_ these files work ok, 
>  but if I need to make them refer back to their parent stub, "a.html"?
>  I don't know what the `master' document is called.

Haven't tried this, so caveat emptor, but in a Unix environment I'd
set an environment variable, e.g.
% setenv OUTPUT a.html
% java com.jclark.xsl.sax.Driver a.xml a.xsl $OUTPUT

and then I'd use system-property() inside the stylesheet to get its value,
as in
<xsl:variable name="Master" expr="system-property(OUTPUT)"/>

Eduardo

>  
>  Yes, I can start a new file as soon as I enter the document, under my
>  control, but in that case how can I control the name of that from the
>  Java command-line? 
>  
>  More generally, relating to this question of splitting into multiple
>  files, I take it we are NOT going to see any formal support for this
>  in XSL 1.0?
>  
>  Would someone care to comment on how things work in an environment where
>  an XML file is quietly transformed to HTML by a server, for older
>  browsers? My test file is 3 mbytes of detailed gibberish, and the
>  chances are that I will currently split it into many small parts, with 
>  some summary documents that reference those parts. How does the server 
>  engine manage this, not having `files' lying around? 
>  
>  sebastian
>  
>  
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