Subject: Re: [xsl] thanks, also thoughts on xsl:script and xsl:function From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:23:37 +0000 |
Hi Dave, > Re: <xsl:script>, I've done some more thinking about this, and have > come around to the view that having a common binding per language is > better than not having one. I would prefer not to see other > languages inlined within XSLT source -- I take it that there must be > a substantial user base that needs to have everything packages in > one file instead of (for example) one per language? Support for an > <xsl:binding>, without inline scripting, is about as far as I have > swung so far. Thinking about client-side processing, I also wonder whether it wouldn't be more efficient for the xsl:script elements to point to the sources and let the processor decide which one(s) to download, given the languages that that processor supports, rather than always shipping the scripts in all those languages all over the place. > Finally, wouldn't it be useful for <xsl:function> to return multiple > items? (Though I guess it would have to be called <xsl:relation> > instead! :-) Sure, it is possible to encapsulate multiple values > into a single one to get around this, just as it is in many other > languages, but why create the need to? Actually I think it's pretty hard to encapsulate multiple values into a single one in XSLT - how would you return a string, a number and a node set without turning them all into an RTF? Unfortunately, I think that supporting the return of multiple values either way would mean extensions to XPath. Perhaps it's something worth lobbying for for XPath 2.0. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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