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RE: XMLPipe model: should we change the name?

2003-02-22 08:09:03

From: Mike Brown [mailto:mike(_at_)skew(_dot_)org]
One thing that we noticed when implementing stylesheet 
chaining/pipelining/whatever in 4Suite (see, I can 
advertise, too) is the problem of what to do
with external stylesheet parameters. Say you want to 
pass the output of stylesheet 1 to stylesheet 2, and 
stylesheet 2 needs some top-level parameters passed 
in.

One approach to this is to implement an XMLFilter wrapper for the XSLT 
transformer that is different than the one that the JAXP1.1 APIs provide.  
Among other things, you can use the XMLFilter.setProperty(String,Object) method 
(inherited from XMLReader) to set parameters on the transformer.  Just use a 
suitable URI scheme to identify the parameters, e.g.,

        param:foo

maps to the parameter foo.

My $0.02.

        -- Paul

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