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I said: > Instead of looking for a vendor:evaluate() function, a better approach > is to use DOM and change a skeleton stylesheet before the > transformation is applied, by setting the value of the "select" > attribute of a certain global variable to the string XPath expression > that is necessary to evaluate. Mike replied: ------------ I would disagree. Firstly, I think if you're going to modify the stylesheet before use, you should do it using XSLT rather than using DOM. Secondly, I think xx:evaluate() is preferable in many cases because you don't lose the benefits of stylesheet compilation; it is also less error-prone (most attempts I have seen to modify stylesheets end up with a horrible dependency between the stylesheet source code and the script that modifies it, which gives you a maintenance nightmare). The only drawback of xx:evaluate() is portability. We agree on the "what" is to be done -- using a skelton stylesheet. How it could be best done is not so important, and Mike is probably quite right that a stylesheet transformation to modify a skeleton stylesheet may be preferrable to using DOM in many cases. We also agree on the drawback of using vendor:evaluate() -- lack of portability, although for me this is more serious -- I'd call it dependence on a certain vendour. If this feature is really so important the best solution would be to provide it in a vendour-independent way (e.g. as part of a pure XSLT 1.0 function/template library). Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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