Re: [xsl] Output XML doc with XSL doc name in comment

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Mike,

At 01:58 PM 5/8/2002, you wrote:
> > It isn't obvious that the XML it is processing has a name. Both the
> > source XML and the stylesheet might come from standard input
> > stream, or
> > from a stream of sax events or....
>
>Dear David C.,
>Even given what you have said, isn't it true that I must call up a
>file name whether it be from the command line, or with xsl:import or
>xsl:include, etc.?

No ... David describes situations where, for example, your XML could be 
pipelined in from some other application, etc. That is, while (this year) 
the vast majority of XSLT processes may be invoked using file names as 
handles on XML documents in a file system, this doesn't always have to be 
the case, so the processor shouldn't assume it.

It's no more a rule that input should always come from a file than that 
output should always be written to a file. Output could go straight into 
display, never have a file name. Maybe that display has some editing 
capability. Maybe you then hit a button and the new document you just wrote 
is transformed somehow. No file.

Actually, XML/XSLT is OS-neutral, and some OSes don't even have "files" (so 
XML uses URIs, building on top of the SGML notion of "system identifiers").

>   And if so, then why not capture those ?.xsl names
>for the comment either at their location or globally? Again, SAXON
>has the name/path anyway.

This is exactly why Mike K. usually says "pass it in as a parameter". This 
is easy enough to do with a shell script (which is what you're doing with 
your NoteTab thingie, isn't it?).

>???
><saxon:systemID select="document('')"/>

Someone else who's used it can confirm this, but my guess is this'll give 
you, in Saxon, the filename of the stylesheet (if it has one).

Cheers,
Wendell


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