On Jul 8, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
XSLT is essentially a special-purpose language - its design is
optimized for
the task of transforming XML to XML.
Okay, interesting comments coming from you. So I don't doubt that it
is sound advice. All I am doing in my pipeline is XML to XML
transformations on a hierarchy of collections. It is just that at one
point in that process I may want the output to go to two locations. To
do this outside of XSLT I will have to generate a different file that
contains the published file list and then copy the files - introducing
unhelpful latencies and potential points of failure.
Surely the mere fact that results-document exists in XSLT suggests
some elementary file processing may be required.
With respect,
Steven
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Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
http://iase.info
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