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Paul Prescod wrote: >You and I agree that various document types have differnet behavioral needs. We agree that there is no way that we can define everything that needs to be done in advance. I think that we agree that usually behavior should be defined in stylesheets, though there are a few cases where it should be defined inline. Not my words. I think that there are times when you want to be able to contol the behaviour inline, not define the behaviour inline. I want to provide a declarative property, not a procedural one. >You demand that when it is inline it should always be expressed in the same attribute. I claim that this will interfere with the goal of extensibility and interoperability. Only if we have a common attribute will we be able to share processing modules among applications. My goal is to be able to have processing modules that I can import into any XSL stylesheet that processes a document using XLinks to allow me to link from the request for data to my local (or external) databases, undertaking appropriate transformations to turn the data stored in the warehouse into the form that the author of the document wants it. While I can introduce your suggested martin:behaviour attributes into my DTD I cannot introduce them into someone elses DTD. If I am using an industry standard DTD that uses XLinks how can I control standardized processes that are known to work in my environment Saying I should just change stylesheets does not necessarily work as it depends on where control of stylesheet association takes place. At present we have not mechanism for local overrides of stylesheets. What I want is a mechanism that will allow me to control the working of imported sytlesheet modules on an instance by instance basis, without having to write special instances of stylesheets for each document instance. Martin Bryan xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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