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Running multiple transformations in a pipeline is just fine, it helps to keep the transformation stages modular. Try to chain them in a SAX pipeline, however, rather than serializing and parsing between each transformation step. Michael Kay > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Paul Tremblay > Sent: 11 February 2004 07:51 > To: xsl-list > Subject: nodes or multiple runs? > > > > I will be publishing a set of xslt stylesheets and want to > make them easy to use for everyone. My question is whether I > should chain several stylesheets together, or try to process > the original document with just one run, using temporary trees. > > Right now, my transformation involves chaining together > stylesheets. One xslt stylesheet creates a document, and that > document is processed with an xslt stylesheet, and so on. > > This method requries that I create several temporary files. I > can write a python script makes the chaining together easy, > but then I have to contend with different processors. Saxon > will require a different processing command than Xalan. I > will have to write a routine for each processor, and that of > course gets pretty involved. > > However, I was reading Michael Kay's book, and I realized > that I can actually create temporary trees instead of making > multiple runs. > > For example, I can group together all colors in the document > and store the result as a temporary tree in a variable. I can > then number the nodes in this temporary tree consecutively. > > But not all processors can handle this method of using a > temporary tree. For example, xsltproc cannot. > > In addition, re-writing my stylesheets so that I can process > everything at once will take a lot of work. In fact, with my > level of skill it may not even be possible. The tricky part > is that I have to number nested lists according to attributes > in the original XML document. A list that is nested inside > another list may require that it inherit the number for its > parent, or it may require that it not. The numbering style > for the child list may be deciaml, but the numbering style > for the parent may be Roman. The top level of each list must > have a unique ID, and this ID must be part of an attribute > for the paragrphs. But children of lists must not have ids. > It is for this reason that I numbered all lists first, and > then on a subsequent run concatenated numbers from parent > lists when I needed to. > > Is it okay to make a user process the document several times, > or should I try to make my xslt stylesheet a one run process? > > Thanks > > Paul > > -- > > ************************ > *Paul Tremblay * > *phthenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx* > ************************ > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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