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RE: XMLPipe model: should we change the name?

2003-02-22 03:23:57
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. For now we just don't do 
anything; only the first stylesheet in the chain gets that 
privilege. So I'm curious... what does your system do in this 
regard? Or if you prefer not to divulge, what do people think a system
*should* do?

I've always advised people to add the information to the document that's
being passed down the pipeline, so stylesheets after the first get all
the information from their source document. This works, except in the
case where stylesheets in the pipeline expect parameters and can't be
changed.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
work: Michael(_dot_)Kay(_at_)softwareag(_dot_)com 


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