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Re: use cases for d-o-e
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:25:55 GMT
- Subject: Re: [xsl] use cases for d-o-e
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> I was wondering about another approach, a serialize() method that returns
> the XML serialization of (say) an element node, as a character string, which
> you can then insert into text output.
that's used a lot in msxml (where you can write it easily as an
extension function that access the MS DOM's .xml method on nodes.
It's more flexible but (as a consequence) requires more work by the
stylesheet author if you have a stylesheet that's writing xhtml and
suddenly you decide to want to add a couple of templates adding in asp
or jsp <% syntax.
If you have an explicit serialiser in the text method, you'd have to
change every template using literal result elements to produce a
serialisation (or I suppose grab the wgole output of the original
transform into a variable and then serialise that)
David
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