Re: [xsl] Invoking XSLT 2.0

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rashmi Rubdi wrote:
> I guess invoking a standalone stylesheet on a named template within it
> makes sense because a styesheet can have multiple templates.

There is no necessity for having multiple templates. My own primary 
reason for using "-it templatename" is that in our production 
environment, we never use the default input, instead some configuration 
file is passed on by system property, which in turn contains some 
catalog-style references to the sources, which are then read in with 
fn:unparsed-text() (we use XSLT for importing structured text, not XML, 
which cannot be the principal input).

Other usages are a stylesheet that does not need any input (or only some 
parameters), i.e., a calculation stylesheet, or the 99-bottles problem, 
or a stylesheet that summarizes the online traffic jams by url. Neither 
need have multiple primary named templates, but do require an initial 
template (well, "require" is too strong a word).

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma