Re: XSLT non-XML output

On 4/17/07, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@sun.com> wrote:
>
> / Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
> | We have a store step and so we could add a serialization method option
> to
> | that
> | step.
>
> Yes, as I think I've said several times, I think our store step ought
> to support the serialization parameters of XSLT.



OK.  I haven't had that in my notes until now.


> How about:
>
>   <p:store>
>     <p:option name="method" select="'html'"/>
>     ...
>   </p:store>



That doesn't work for my use case.  I want to associate
serialization parameters to output ports of pipelines.  That way
the environment in which the pipeline is executed can do
the "right thing" much as is the case when you execute
an XSLT transform with the 'html' serialization output method.



-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics