This looks like a good use case for an extension function transform(doc,
stylesheet) which can be invoked from XSLT and returns the result of
transforming a document using a given stylesheet.
Such a function has been suggested from time but I've never seen a
convincing use case for it before.
Michael Kay
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Nikolas Nehmer
Sent: 01 February 2004 16:31
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Subject: [xsl] hard problem
Hi,
I have a really hard problem. Imagine you have a set of
publications, consisting of books, articles, PhDThesises,...
all modeled in XML(and corresponding XSD) files. All those
publications have different characteristics, like different
elements,...Every publication class is linked with a
specialized XSL File for visualization purposes, for example
a book with an ISBN Number is displayed differnt from an
article,... Every publication is saved in it's own file.
Now I want to create a list of all those publications without
creating an XSL file with too much overhead. In common object
oriented programming languages like Java I would say OK every
Object in my list knows how to visualize, so I just call
every object's visualization method and I have created the
list. But unfortunately this is XML and not Java ;-(
So far my list consisted of several Xlinks pointing to the
publication XML files. A specialized list.xsl file visualized
those links and when you klicked the links, the spezialized
publication visualization opened. But what I want to do now
is to make something like to call the publication's
visualizer. In my opinion xlink:show="embed" would be a very
simple solution to my problem but as I know this function is
not implemented yet in browsers like Mozilla. Does anyone
have some suggestions? Maybe something like simulating the
xlink:show="embed" functionality on XSL level (in the
list.xsl) could be a solution?!
Best regards,
Nick
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