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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: conditionalization of XML
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>: > You want to do > XML ---- process X ----> xmlsubset ---- transform ----> web or print > > process X standalone can't be done easilly with XSLT, yes. > > XML ---- process X + transform ----> web or print > > can be done with XSLT assuming the way you tags things integrate okay > with the markup, which is *not* the case with PIs I don't *want* to do anything but have a painless way to conditionalize my dcuments. I'm not attached to doing it with a preprocessor. But without the right kind of markup support built into the XSLT engine, that seems to be the least painful choice. If I weren't fully aware of the problems with this approach, I would not have raised the possibility that these PIs might belong at the XSLT level. > And a solution based on markup tags/attributes and not PIs is likely > to be quite simpler to describe fully. Yes, I have been thinking about this, One alternative would be the interface Jirk Kosek's stylesheet supports -- in effect, any tag may have a condition attribute; the tag and its contents disappear if that attribute's value doesn't match a passed parameter. This would have the advantage that the conditionalized output is guaranteed to be well-formed if the input was. > Yes with respect to structure, error handling etc ... And get traction, > checking that others are interested in it and have reviewed it. The PI-based will get a real-world test from xmlto's users asfter the 0.11 relese. > You claim to have the magic solution, I want to hear > more voices before commiting on it, especially since I'm not personally > convinced it's the right technical approach. Magic, no. Workable, yes. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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