Subject: AW: [xsl] hard problem From: Nikolas.Nehmer@xxxxxxxxxxx (Nikolas Nehmer) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:12:01 +0100 |
Yes, a very nice use case for such a function or one more hint that xlink should be supported some more in common browsers. This is a typical example for a object oriented subject in the XML world. Best regards, Nick |-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- |Von: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl- |list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Michael Kay |Gesendet: Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 18:32 |An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |Betreff: RE: [xsl] hard problem | |This looks like a good use case for an extension function transform(doc, |stylesheet) which can be invoked from XSLT and returns the result of |transforming a document using a given stylesheet. | |Such a function has been suggested from time but I've never seen a |convincing use case for it before. | |Michael Kay | |> -----Original Message----- |> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of |> Nikolas Nehmer |> Sent: 01 February 2004 16:31 |> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |> Subject: [xsl] hard problem |> |> |> Hi, |> |> I have a really hard problem. Imagine you have a set of |> publications, consisting of books, articles, PhDThesises,... |> all modeled in XML(and corresponding XSD) files. All those |> publications have different characteristics, like different |> elements,...Every publication class is linked with a |> specialized XSL File for visualization purposes, for example |> a book with an ISBN Number is displayed differnt from an |> article,... Every publication is saved in it's own file. |> |> Now I want to create a list of all those publications without |> creating an XSL file with too much overhead. In common object |> oriented programming languages like Java I would say OK every |> Object in my list knows how to visualize, so I just call |> every object's visualization method and I have created the |> list. But unfortunately this is XML and not Java ;-( |> So far my list consisted of several Xlinks pointing to the |> publication XML files. A specialized list.xsl file visualized |> those links and when you klicked the links, the spezialized |> publication visualization opened. But what I want to do now |> is to make something like to call the publication's |> visualizer. In my opinion xlink:show="embed" would be a very |> simple solution to my problem but as I know this function is |> not implemented yet in browsers like Mozilla. Does anyone |> have some suggestions? Maybe something like simulating the |> xlink:show="embed" functionality on XSL level (in the |> list.xsl) could be a solution?! |> |> Best regards, |> Nick |> |> |> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list |> | | | XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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