[xsl] PI for associating a sample input with a stylesheet [was Re: [xsl] Xselerator]

[George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Abel,

I see what you mean. I read the message too quickly and I thought you 
were referring to the xml-stylesheet PI.
I do not see any difficulties to implement this similar with the way we 
implemented the xml-styelsheet PI support. However, it will be great if 
instead of an oXygen specific PI we would be able to use something more 
  generic.

I am curious how much interest is in having such a PI. I remember that I 
was pro having a PI to associate a Relax NG schema with an XML document 
and there was a strong reaction against making a proposal for such a PI 
on the Relax NG list. So what people think about such a PI?

Best Regards,
George
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Abel Braaksma (online) wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, George,
>
> > oXygen detects automatically the xml-stylesheet PI if you try to
> > execute the transform action on a file and in that case it will ask
> > you if you want to use that stylesheet for the transformation.
>
> My point wasn't very clear perhaps (and I intermingling with the OP
> here...). When i write a stylesheet, that stylesheet often has a
> couple of test XMLs that go with it for unit tests etcetera. Not the
> other way around: when i write an XML document, it is not defined to
> run with a particular stylesheet (and often, these documents come
> from other sources and meddling with them seems inappropriate).
>
> So, what I'd actually like is a way to associate XML files with
> stylesheets, not stylesheets with XML files:
>
> <?sample-xml-list test-one.xml test-two.xml ?>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.ww3...etc
>   ....
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Something like that (it would be beneficial already if it worked
> with one xml file). But I guess, I should post that as an
> enhancement request to the Oxygen forum, right?
>
> Cheers,
> -- Abel Braaksma