RE: Please clarify xsl:apply-imports

> I believe that you intend to have clearer wording about 
> xsl:apply-imports
> in the XSLT 2.0 document. I would like to get your erratum 
> for XSLT 1.0 in
> the same area (section 5.6).

To achieve greater clarity in the XSLT 2.0 draft, I found it necessary to
introduce a number of new concepts and definitions, including the concepts
of a "stylesheet module", a "stylesheet level" (all the modules with the
same import precedence), order of declarations within a stylesheet level,
and the import tree as being a tree of stylesheet levels, not stylesheet
modules. Unfortunately it's not really possible to introduce this kind of
formalism in a 1.0 erratum - it would amount to doing a "1.0 second
edition".

If someone would like to propose replacement text for 1.0, I'll be happy to
review it... but it's not going to be easy, and I wonder if it's effort well
spent?

Mike Kay

 Points to cover:
> It causes the invocation of one template, just as 
> apply-templates does.
> If there is no matching template, the built-in rule is used.
> There is no automatic cascading of apply-imports; a built-in rule for
> elements has apply-templates and may thus search for matching 
> templates
> among all templates available in the whole consolidated stylesheet.
> Please say whatever may be necessary to convey that 
> apply-imports does not
> change the current node.
> .................David Marston
>

Received on Wednesday, 21 November 2001 07:12:53 UTC