- From: Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:08:15 -0800
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
On 10/26/06, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@sun.com> wrote: > Consider an XSLT stylesheet with, say, 532 parameters. (I just > checked, that's how many the DocBook stylesheets accept.) If you want > to allow someone to pass those parameters through from the pipeline to > an XSLT component inside that pipeline, it's impractical to list all > of them. That's my recollection of where import-param came from. Norm, Is it frequent to have stylesheets that take such a large number of parameters? I am quite reluctant to include to the XProc language a feature only to support a infrequent and unusual use cases, especially if that feature promotes an inferior programming style. Alex -- Blog (XML, Web apps, Open Source): http://www.orbeon.com/blog/
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