- From: Jess M Holle <jessh@ptc.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:24:34 -0500
- To: xsl-editors@w3.org
I ran into this issue in an XSLT application wherein I was generating an HTML GUI from dynamically generated XML data AND XSLT input parameters. At numerous places, XSLT input parameters and document() calls based on these were all I needed, i.e. the type of data I had relegated to the primary XML stream was not existent for a particular HTML page. In order to make LotusXSL cooperate with this, I had to feed it a dummy XML document. My implementation ended up with a static dummy.xml in its directory tree for just this reason. I agree with the original poster. The spec should recommend the ability to apply XSLT with an assumed, empty document rather than having to make a literal empty document to operate "against" (when, of course, the contents of this document were always ignored).
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