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Hi Garvin,
At 01:37 PM 11/15/2007, you wrote: But the second stylesheet, which is doing the addition, doesn't depend on the nodes that the first one processes, it depends on the nodes that the first one adds. And these nodes (<aaa>) habe the same name as some aleady existing nodes. The question is, is it possible for the xslt processor to find out which <aaa> elemnts are from the source xml and which are added by the stylesheet without adding extra inforomation to the added elements. Why is "adding extra information", so your temporary results match different templates in the second pass, such a problem? For example, you could put them a distinct namespace, or add an attribute flag or whatever. It seems to me that this is what your requirement entails in any case -- a subsequent pass that knew the difference between the "old" and "new" elements would presumably have to determine that somehow. So why not make it explicit in the stylesheet, especially since it can generally be done quite cleanly and safely? I should think this would be preferable to having stylesheets operate differently depending on how engines were invoked. Parameterizing is one thing (and if you were pipelining in a single pass under XSLT 2.0, the behavior you described could indeed be parameterized), but making the semantics of stylesheets depend on externalities such as whether and which other stylesheets are being invoked seems like a recipe for trouble -- to say nothing of how tricky it might be to specify. Maybe you're onto something different from what I'm thinking, in which case it might help to have your definition of "composition". Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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