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

[B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems to me that this is the sort of thing that is far better 
handled in a (perhaps standardized) external file than inside the 
(hopefully re-useable/re-purposable) XSLT. The more 
application/environment/use specific information there is embedded in 
a file the less re-useable/re-purposeable it is.

But then, I think the link from an XML document to the associated 
stylesheetS (yes, I meant that "S") should be external to the 
document, too. We don't use one and only one stylesheet with every 
document, and embedding that information in the document forces 
people who would otherwise have no reason to edit the document do so.

-- Tommie


At 5:35 PM +0300 7/19/07, George Cristian Bina wrote:
> 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?
> 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>

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