Re: [xslt] ready to use extensions??

[Janning Vygen <vygen gmx de>]

Thanks for your suggestions and writing this very quick processor. 

Janning

Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2002 15:58 schrieben Sie:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:42:13PM +0200, Janning Vygen wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2002 14:10 schrieben Sie:
> > > > I would like to have an extension which can get imagewidth
> > > > and imageheight of a referenced image, so i need filesystem
> > > > access for this, which can only be done with an extension.
> >
> > but maybe still anybody has written such an extension??? I guess
> > a
>
>   If it's not in EXSLT, that's unlikely.
>
> > filesystem extension is needed very often (download size,
> > imagesize, file available, url available, newest source in
> > directory and so on.)
>
>   Sure, note that accessing image size would require to link an
> image library, so it's a strong dependancy.
>
> > Ok, its not portable anymore as you mentioned, but i can use the
> > function-available() feature before to keep it portable.
>
>   the code, not the functionality.
>
> > good examples for the need of those extensions:
> > if you dont use unparsed entities for an image reference, but
> > only href attribute in docbook you cant say if this image is
> > available It would be nice to produce an error if its not
> >
> > How about a link list. it would be fine to check the url
> > attribute of an ulink in docbook and produce an error or just
> > render the link a different way if its broken.
> >
> > Is this the right list for asking?? How many subscribers are
> > here? Maybe i should query the mulberry xslt list??
>
>   Last time I checked there was 140+ subscriber in this list, but
> it is really tied to libxslt.
>
>   Or any EXSLT related mailing-list, yes that would be a good way
> to increase the pool. The python bindings can probably allow to do
> those extensions in an easy way, but the complexity would then to
> integrate the Python code within your application.
>
> Daniel

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