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RE: xsl self-documentation on the fly /feature request
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- Subject: RE: xsl self-documentation on the fly /feature request
- From: "Pawson, David" <DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:30:12 +0100
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Jeni Tennison
>>I am trying to create xsl transformation templates with a feature that
>>documents that they have been applied (on an xml file) and
>where they have
>>been applied (either node or line number in the text). It
>would be ideal if
>>this documentation could be in a seperate file that is a log
>of all changes
>>in the original xml files.
>
>This sounds like an interesting challenge! :)
>The first thing I thought of was using saxon:output or xt:document to
>create your log, but the problem is that whenever you direct
>output to a
>file, it overwrites that file (you can't just append to it),
>which ruins
>that option as far as I can make out.
Is this a feature request?
<xt:document('file-name', 'append')....
I like that. Eric? Mike Kay? comments?
I don't 'think' it breaks any of the ideologies? Does it?
(but it does involve state, so perhaps yes it does)
Regards, DaveP
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