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Re: Invoking XSLT 2.0

Subject: Re: Invoking XSLT 2.0
From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:18:07 +0200
Re:  Invoking XSLT 2.0
Rashmi Rubdi wrote:

I guess invoking a standalone stylesheet on a named template within it makes sense because a styesheet can have multiple templates.


There is no necessity for having multiple templates. My own primary reason for using "-it templatename" is that in our production environment, we never use the default input, instead some configuration file is passed on by system property, which in turn contains some catalog-style references to the sources, which are then read in with fn:unparsed-text() (we use XSLT for importing structured text, not XML, which cannot be the principal input).


Other usages are a stylesheet that does not need any input (or only some parameters), i.e., a calculation stylesheet, or the 99-bottles problem, or a stylesheet that summarizes the online traffic jams by url. Neither need have multiple primary named templates, but do require an initial template (well, "require" is too strong a word).

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma

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