- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:46:22 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Robert Sanderson <azaroth@liverpool.ac.uk>
- cc: Sebastian Hammer <quinn@indexdata.dk>, Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>, <www-zig@w3.org>
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Robert Sanderson wrote: > > > >On the retrieve side, an XSLT with XPath expressions is > > >simply applied to make records into whatever syntax is > > >desired. I suspect many Z39.50 implementors are already > > >supporting the use of externally-defined stylesheets. > > > > Yes, this is a good notion. Actually, given a known initial schema, it > > makes sense for the client to submit an XSLT stylesheet to request a > > transformation of each result set record prior to shipment. In my mind, > > this is exactly equivalent to the use of Espec-1, only more powerful, and > > standardised to boot. > > Can't we do that now by giving a URI in elementSetNames which refers to an > XSLT style sheet, rather than dumping potentially very long stylesheets > dynamically at the server for every request? For retrieval purposes, > specifying a style sheet and specifying a schema for the record to be > returned in result in the same outcome -- you get the record in a certain > format. Seems sensible. For the paranoid amongst us, passing in a sha1 or md5 hash of the XSLT sheet might help the server decide whether the XSLT was safe to run. Creeping featurism though :) Dan -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/
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