On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 Kevin(_dot_)Gutch(_at_)mapinfo(_dot_)com wrote:
Would an XSLT with several parameters and an Document() that accepts a
parameter be a static style sheet? Technically the stylesheet never changes
but the result tree does. I ask because I am interested in caching the
style sheet but am not sure it is appropriate since the parameters being
passed in can change each time the stylesheet is requested.
Caching interpreted stylesheets is common practice. Most implementations
should allow you to reset top-level parameters inbetween invocations of the
stylesheet. However, the wording of the standard is somewhat vague: "when
the template or stylesheet within which the xsl:param element occurs is
invoked, parameters may be passed that are used in place of the default
values." (11). Does this mean just before, or also during? What should
happend in a multi-threaded application, if one thread transforms, and
another toggles top-level parameter values?
// Gregory Murphy <Gregory(_dot_)Murphy(_at_)sun(_dot_)com>
// Software Engineer
// Customer Network Platform, Sun Microsystems
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