Re: [xslt] Module initialization with built-in user-defined data elements "meta" and "initialize-module"

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 05:16:42AM +0400, Oleg A. Paraschenko wrote:
> Hello Kasimier,
> 
> On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:42:26 +0200
> "Buchcik, Kasimier" <k buchcik 4commerce de> wrote:
> 
> ...
> >   <!-- The new meda data element of Libxslt. -->
> >   <meta xmlns="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/";>
> >     <!--
> >       Initialize the module "urn:test:myTest" at compile-time.
> >       The attribute @scope can be one of:
> >       1) "global" - global storage of user-data for this module
> >       2) "stylesheet-level" - per stylesheet-level storage of
> >                               user-data for this module
> >       -->
> >     <initialize-module namespace="urn:test:myTest" scope="global"/>
> >   </meta>
> ...
> > 
> > Comments and further ideas are appreciated.
> 
> I'd like to resist to this approach. The main problems are:
> 
> * It's an odd thing to see developer-level data (how to initialize a
> module) on the user-level (XSLT stylesheet).
> 
> * Stylesheet is polluted by a processor-specific spots. If I have my
> extension module for xsltproc, xalan, saxon, I'm not happy to add
> meta instructions for each of them.

  Yeah, I must admit I'm not fond of adding libxslt specific extension

> Probably the best place to inform xsltproc about how to initialize
> an module is the module itself.

  Yup sounds way better from my viewpoint :-)

Daniel

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