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Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 15:34:25 -0400
From: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Doubt in using <A> within XSL
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


> / "eduardo.gutentag" <Eduardo.Gutentag@xxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
> [...]
> | > server, maybe I'll have to maintain my source as dozens of
> | > separate XML documents.  Linked together with XLinks?
> | 
> | Hm, I don't know if that's the right question, Norm. Seems to
> | me that it boils down to whether XSL is a server-side
> | style-sheet language (a la Jade, or rather, like Jade can be
> | used), or a client-side one. If the latter, which I believe is
> | how the current submission approaches it, 
> 
> I agree with you that the current work on XSL is focused on the
> client side attachement of style (and that's where I think it
> should be focused).  

We're in agreement.

> 
> | the chunking should be done at the server-side,
> 
> This is another possible approach to the problem.  I had
> suggested that the chunks would be maintained on the server, but
> I think you're suggesting that the document be maintained on the
> server as one (or several) large units and that the server
> should send only the appropriate chunk.

Yes, that's what I'm suggesting.

> 
> | but that brings up the issue of how the style sheet is then
> | supposed to traverse the tree when all it has is a bit of a
> | chunk to work on.
> 
> It would seem to me that in this case the server is going to
> have to send additional information.  Perhaps a <chapter> on the
> server becomes a <chapter-chunk> when sent by the server, with
> additional metadata stuck at the top to indicate the titles and
> URIs of preceding and next chunks, pointers to the TOC, etc.?

Yep - and a good hard look at Sgmlopen's TR on fragments (I don't
remember the number) would probably be very helpful too.

Eduardo

> Since we can represent this data as well-formed XML, we can still
> use XSL to style it.
> 
> --norm
> 
> 
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