xml-dev - RE: Conditional actions in XSL?

[Sean Mc Grath <digitome@iol.ie>]

[Tony Stewart]

>*(Though an alternative to maintaining traditional memory variables
>could be to manipulate attributes of the parsed tree, provided that the
>scripts were allowed to get at it... style rules manipulating the DOM...
>there's food for thought.)

This is kinda-sorta the territory of tree transformation. 
Conditions that, on the face of it must be in the style langauge
such as:

        if date > 1/1/1999

Can be delegated to an earlier tree transformation that either
establishes a TRUE/FALSE attribute on each element or renames
the elements so that you can trigger different rules.

This is DOM territory since DOM is read/write. As a result
this sort of transformation should be doable from
whatever scripting environment we access DOM from.

Regards,



Sean Mc Grath
sean at digitome dot com




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