Re: Naming ports vs. naming documents

> I don't quite follow what you mean here:

When I wrote that message I had been thinking about XSLT's document
function, where you can use an XSLT variable to specify the URL, and I
forgot that you can't do the same for xsl:import.  Norm noticed my
mistake on the phone call.

Of course there are plenty of other example where the language doesn't
allow any kind of variable - Henry's XInclude example is one.  So we would
need something like 

> Or perhaps you're suggesting that stylesheet A be generated by another 
> step that takes the URI for stylesheet B as an input or an XSLT 
> parameter.
[...]
> which seems quite laborious.

Yes, it is quite laborious.  As Henry again pointed out, it would be
very useful to have a simple component whose purpose is just to make
trivial replacements on documents - something much lighter-weight than
XSLT.  It's still a bit unwieldy.

-- Richard

Received on Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:48:11 UTC