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Roger,
I was just thinking that the current XSLT standard lacks interactivity, and was about to suggest an element xsl:prompt for further revisions of the standard. Scenario: A stylesheet that converts a .docx (or OpenOffice, or IDML, ...) file to XHTML and discovers ordinary paragraphs that look like headings: all large font and boldface. A person should be able to interactively correct the markup. The stylesheet should be able to prompt this person: <xsl:template match="para[my:looks-like-heading(.)]" mode="correct-structure"> <xsl:prompt bind-variable="user-choice" as="xs:string"> Found heading candidate: <xsl:value-of select="." /> I suggest that I convert it to a heading. What should I do? [k]eep as is, make it h[1], h[2], h[3], h[4], h[5], h[6], put it in custom markup (specify as 'element@attribute=value', e.g., p@class=check-later) </xsl:prompt> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$user-choice eq 'k'> <xsl:copy-of select="." /> <xsl/when> <xsl:when test="matches($user-choice, '[1-6]')"> <xsl:element name="h{$user-choice}"> <xsl:apply-template mode="#current" /> </xsl:element> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="matches($user-choice, '^([-_:\w]+)(@([-_:\w])=(.*))?$')"> <xsl:analyze-string ....> ... / </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:copy-of select="." /> <xsl/otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> I think you can somehow make XSLT interactive in a Java application that invokes an XSLT processor. For example, oXygen is a Java application that acts as an XSLT debugger, allowing breakpoints, among other things. If you can manipulate variables at a breakpoint (not sure whether oXygen permits this), then you have a facility such as xsl:prompt in a combined Java/XSLT application. The lack of xsl:prompt did'nt make me develop custom Java applications around my XSLT, but from time to time I wish there were such interactive facilities in pure XSLT. -Gerrit On 29.10.2010 14:28, Costello, Roger L. wrote: Hi Folks,
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