[Osr-101] Client side XSLT parameters

[Michael Wechner]

Andreas Wuest wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 11.7.2007 16:03 Uhr, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> At the Lenya hackathon Thomas suggested to introduce client side XSLT 
>> parameters as by enhancing the introspection as follows:
>>
>> <introspection>
>> <resource>
>>  <edit>
>>    <style href="/foo/bar.xsl">
>>       <parameter name="" value=""/>
>>       ...
>>
>>
>> I think that would make a lot of sense.
>
>
> I agree.


btw, I have added an amendment

http://neutron.wyona.org/amendments/xslt-parameters.html

>
> From a protocol perspective we have to be a bit cautious though. First 
> of all, we have this <style> element. Is this XSL only, or do we want 
> to use this for different things (e.g. CSS, etc.)?


good question, so far I think we only considered XSLT, but I guess CSS 
would also make sense.

What did we implement in the case of Yulup? I guess only XSLT?

>
> If we exlusively want to use it for XSL, then I'm fine with the above. 
> If we also want to use it for CSS, etc., then parameters might not 
> make sense for certain styles.


well, we could add a mime-type attribute, e.g

<style mime-type="text/css" href="/foo/bar.css"/>

<style mime-type="application/xhtml+xml" href="/foo/bar.xsl">
  <parameter name="....

>
> But maybe we should simply introduce a @type attribute for the style, 
> which tells us what kind of style it is. If there are parameters for a 
> CSS style, then it is simply ignored by the client.


you mean like I describe above?

Cheers

Michi


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