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I have been requested to implement this feature in an XML library more than once, both by XSL users and for other related external documents (XSP, DCP, whatever). I think it could and should be done in a very generic manner, allowing the application to specify one or more external documents using the same PI mechanism and the parser would respond by placing them (or reporting them) through the properties. By scope these references should be one per document and always appear above the root element. Feature: http://xml.org/sax/features/xsl-transform If true the parser sould attempt to apply XSL transformation and return the results, if XSL is supported. Property: http://xml.org/sax/property/xsl-stylesheet Read and write. If set before the parser is started, will introduce the PI directive using the supplied system identifier into the document name, if no such PI already exists. When read, will use either the one supplied in the document or the one supplied in the property (whichever comes last) and return a system identifier. EntityResolver can be used to get the InputStream. In addition, I think the following could be useful: Property: http://xml.org/sax/property/document-base Read and write. Provide a URL for resolving all relative URLs appearing in the document (stylesheet, external entities, etc). Could be used to supply a fake base URL when the document is parsed from memory. Could be used to return the base URL when the document is parsed from a real URL, e.g. for the purpose of locating an external stylesheet. Arkin David Megginson wrote: > > Oren Ben-Kiki writes: > > > One interesting way for doing it would be to build upon the SAX2 > > extension mechanism, providing a standard SAX2 feature called > > http://xml.org/sax/features/xslt-transformation and a write only > > property it uses, called > > http://xml.org/sax/properties/xslt-stylesheet which takes an > > InputSource value. > > I think that it's a great approach, but the feature and property > probably don't belong in the core, for two reasons: > > 1. XSL is not yet a recommendation; and > 2. there are many other specs, such as RDF, XML Linking, and XML > Schemas, that could fairly claim equal treatment. > > That said, there is no reason at all that someone couldn't define such > a feature and property outside of the SAX2 core list and let the > market decide. > > All the best, > > David > > -- > David Megginson david@m... > http://www.megginson.com/ > > 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...) 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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