Re: [xsl] XMLPipe model: should we change the name?

[Michael Pediaditakis <mp49@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> > One thing that we noticed when implementing stylesheet 
> > chaining/pipelining/ whatever in 4Suite (see, I can 
> > advertise, too) is the problem of what to do with external 
> > stylesheet parameters. Say you want to pass the output of 
> > stylesheet 1 to stylesheet 2, and stylesheet 2 needs some 
> > top-level parameters passed in. For now we just don't do 
> > anything; only the first stylesheet in the chain gets that 
> > privilege. So I'm curious... what does your system do in this 
> > regard? Or if you prefer not to divulge, what do people think a system
> > *should* do?
> >
> >    
> I've always advised people to add the information to the document that's
> being passed down the pipeline, so stylesheets after the first get all
> the information from their source document. This works, except in the
> case where stylesheets in the pipeline expect parameters and can't be
> changed.
>
>  
However that becomes a problem when the individual stylesheets in the 
pipeline are independently
developed (e.g. just use a ready made stylesheet that does not expect 
this type of "enhanced" content).
Except of course if we adopt a common XML representation for 
transformation meta-information!

Mike.  (realises that this reply didn't suggest any solution... I'm 
working on it.. please wait
until the XMLPipe -or whatever it will be called - is be finished :)


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