Re: Extending xsltproc?

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:07:09AM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> 
> I've been playing around with xsltproc and while I realize it is just
> a proofing tool not meant for serious transforms, I'm wondering just
> how far it can go.

  What makes you believe "it's just a proofing tool" ?
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> Are there any references or tutorials anywhere for how I might add
> extensions to the XSL understood by xsltproc?  The website only

  What about RTFM ? http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/extensions.html

> discusses extensions via C as applied to the libxsl C functions; it's
> not clear if there is any mechanism for xsltproc to dynamically extend
> itself.

  Use the python based wrapper: pyxsltproc.py
     http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/python.html

> Then again, maybe I don't need to extend it. The two transforms I
> would like to implement seem easy and commonplace, but are proving
> elusive: I would like to render a node-set into rows of columns
> without resorting to disable-output-escaping to insert the
> modulo-column </tr><tr> break, and I'd also like to be able to present
> a node-set in a new random order on each call.  If either of these
> effects can be done directly with xsltproc, I'll be one happy camper.

  Those are general XSLT questions, and this is the right place,
the first one doesn't sounds a problem, the second would need a random
generator, maybe there is one in EXSLT

Daniel

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