Re: Parameter handling

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Yeah, there's a missing functionality -- we talked at one point about
generalising 'replace' and 'set-attributes' with something you might
call 'set-value', with args an xpath to select a domain, an xpath to
select a target relative to that, and an xpath to select a value. . .

Then you could do:

<p:set-value>
 <p:option name="domain" value="c:body"/>
 <p:option name="target" value="."/>
 <p:option name="value" value="$parm"/>
 <p:input port="source">
  <p:inline>
    <c:http-request method="post" href="http://example.com/form-action">
      <c:entity-body content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
        <c:body>[will be replaced]</c:body>
      </c:entity-body>
    </c:http-request>
   </p:inline>
 </p:input>
</p:set-value>

You could of course also do it with the equivalent bit of XSLT:

<p:xslt>
 <p:parameter name="content" value="$parm"/>
 <p:input port="source">
  <p:inline>
    <c:http-request method="post" href="http://example.com/form-action">
      <c:entity-body content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
        <c:body>xyzzy</c:body>
      </c:entity-body>
    </c:http-request>
   </p:inline>
 </p:input>
</p:set-value>
<p:input port="stylesheet">
 <xsl:ss>
  <xsl:template match="node()|@*"/>
    <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="c:body">
   <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
     <xsl:value-of select="$content"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
   </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
 </xsl:ss>
</p:input>
</p:xslt>

Richard may have something to add about a tool we use in Edinburgh to
make it trivial to do a streaming step which only handles this sort of
stylesheet.

ht
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Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:40:46 UTC