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Re: variable import hrefs?
/ Mark Johnson <mark@phy.duke.edu> was heard to say:
| I want it all. Everything. Now.
You can't have everything, where would you put it?
| Despite the dopey story line, I'm quite serious. This issue is bound
| to arise again and again in different settings.
Bleh. I see your point. Well, I don't have a good answer now, and I
may never have a good answer for XT, but if you can get Norma to switch
to a recent Xalan or Saxon (or any other processor that supports the jaxp
URIResolver), she'll be able to use a catalog to redirect
<xsl:import href="http://.../html/docbook.xsl"/>
to version 1.24.
| Then:
|
| the user's $HOME/.catalog could tell the parser to look at whatever
| version the user wanted it to point to.
|
| Cool, eh?
Yes, that's basically my plan. After I get the catalog stuff distributed,
I'll probably change all my dorky relative system identifiers to something
reasonably global and use a catalog to do the right thing.
(Whether or not I decide to be somewhat mean and use URNs for my system
identifiers is an open question. But I very much doubt I will, despite
a certain nasty temptation.)
| But hey, I'm no expert. For all I know, what I'm asking for could be
|
| (a.) already in the works
Yes.
| (b.) ridiculous, unseemly
Nope.
| (c.) already solved, (my ignorance is the problem)
Not really.
| (d.) profound, insightful, visionary
|
| I hope it's (d.), but I doubt it.
Close enough. It's certainly a significant, real problem that needs
to be solved. (I encourage everyone to send mail to the xslt-comments@w3.org
list asking why the xsl:import and xsl:include elements don't support
both a 'publicid' and 'href' attributes :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Men are more like the times they
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | live in than they are like their
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | fathers.--Ali Ibn-abi-talib
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