- From: Hugh Winkler <hughw@wellstorm.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:34:19 -0500
- To: "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: public-grddl-comments@w3.org
On 9/6/07, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 14:29 -0500, Hugh Winkler wrote: > > Comment on http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-grddl-20070716/ > > > > How would one pass parameters to an XSL transformation? > > > > No provision was ever standardized for doing so in the case of the > > xsl-stylesheet PI. It would be nice if we could overload the <meta> > > tag or some such. > > Of course, the XSLT transformation has access to everything > in the source document, so it can use information > in the <meta> element as a parameter of sorts. > > We haven't found any need for anything more than that. > > Does that seem sufficient? > I think so... trying to remember *exactly* what I meant by "overload the <meta> tag". I believe I was suggesting a profile such that you could say <meta name="xslparam" content="name=value">, and whatever agent doing the transform would pass those parameters. But that seems dumb. As you say, the XSLT can just as well transform the meta tag itself. > > -- > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ > > > Hugh
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