Re: Looping input and output in XProc

Agreed. For some problem types tying input and output together until a condition is met (or fails) is the most elegant solution. 

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On 21 Sep 2012, at 11:32, Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <josteinaj@gmail.com> wrote:

> In a future revision of XProc it would be nice to have a way to do this without recursion though. A way of piping the result of one iteration into the next iteration in a loop could be very useful indeed. Another use-case for this that I can think of for this is when you want to retrieve a list of something from a web service where the results are paginated (potentially thousands of pages), and you need a resumption token provided in the previous request to retrieve the next page. This is the case for the OAI-PMH protocol[1], and I'm sure many others. The recursion depth can grow quite deep.
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> [1] http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page4.htm#section9
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> Jostein
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> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hah. I *knew* there was something I should have thought of. Thank you!
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>> On 21 Sep 2012, at 08:58, Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <josteinaj@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Depending on how many XSLTs you want to apply, recursion would be an alternative...
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>>> Jostein
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>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Hi Folks
>>>> 
>>>> I have a problem that is best expressed as something like this (given an xml document xmldoc initialised to the initial input)
>>>> 
>>>> 1. fetch URL for XSLT from list
>>>> 2. Load XSLT file
>>>> 2. process xmldoc with XSLT
>>>> 3. set xmldoc to result
>>>> 4. fetch next file from from list. If found go to 1. If not emit current xmldoc
>>>> 
>>>> The problem is that I have an arbitrary collection of XSLT stylesheets that I need to apply to an XML document passing the result of the first transform to the second XSLT and so on. Right now, the only thing I can see to do is to use another bit of XSLT to generate an XProc pipeline and execute that. I would prefer to be able to do this without that and simply express this as some sort of iteration in XProc. 
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't been able to think of a way that I can express this in XProc. Anyone get some spare intuition?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> thanks
>>>> nic
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