Re: [xslt] Re: [xml] Iterating through multiple HTML docs

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism maden org>]

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I wasn't very clear, I guess.  There are two separate things going on:

1) The behavior of libxslt concerning relative URIs in <xsl:document> had 
puzzled me.  The instant serialization explains that.  I had a workaround 
already, passing the root directory as a parameter to the stylesheet so 
that all URIs can be absolute.  This wasn't a problem, really just an 
observation.

2) There are some things I want to clean up after the XML-to-HTML 
conversion.  They could be done with extension functions, but that seems 
unnecessarily complicated (and not really my core skill set).  For 
instance, the source documents have references to other documents by an ID 
which can be looked up in a control file.  It seems easiest to generate an 
<a> element in the HTML, and then post-process to locate the proper URIs 
for the target documents.  There are also some characters which browsers 
can't display easily; rather than have a cumbersome template matching every 
text() node in the XSLT, it seems easier to iterate over the result in Perl 
and do a quick series of s///s.

For these problems, it seems like delaying HTML and <xsl:document> is the 
way to go.

Thanks for your feedback.

~Chris
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