Re: What do you call a stylesheet that doesn't require

How about these?

Lazy (won't do nothin' unless someone gives me some XML)
Ambitious (gonna go get my own XML!)
Snobby (too good to associate with other files)

:D

Or you could go with

External (XML source is defined outside the stylesheet)
Internal (XML source is defined inside the stylesheet)
Stand-alone (doesn't need an XML source)

I'm a little uncomfortable with Internal versus External, since I have 
written my stylesheets that use the collection feature to get XML source 
documents such that they take a path parameter. So there's still some 
information coming from outside the stylesheet. Also, the terms are 
generic enough to be confusing.

There's also

Uncollected
Collected
Stand-alone

Just some ideas.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




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>>>>> "Andrew" == andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Andrew> traditional kind of transform as you can easily divide
    Andrew> stylesheets into the 2 types of processing models - those
    Andrew> with the XML supplied, and those where the stylesheet
    Andrew> fetches the XML itself without an initial XML.

There's a third kind - those that do not reference an XML document at
all.
There's quite a few of these in the test suite for FXSL.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire