Re: PassiveTex & FOP

2004-07-08 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
John Russell wrote: Is there a reason for the choice of PassiveTex over FOP for rendering FO in AxKit? yes, a) because I asked for it first, and I own PassiveTeX; b) because AxKit is for Perlys, and FOP is Java. :-} -- Sebastian Rahtz Information Manager Oxford University Computing Services

PassiveTex & FOP

2004-07-08 Thread John Russell
Is there a reason for the choice of PassiveTex over FOP for rendering FO in AxKit? John. --- John Russell, Only Web Data, Inc Phone:415 591 0200 - To unsubscri

Re: XSLT-accessed query params and testing existance

2004-07-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 8. juli 2004, 19:38, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: > At this point however, I think it might be worth taking a step back > and trying to determine what you're getting done, and perhaps > refactor what you're doing, instead of trying to force the XSL params > functionality into place. Perl-sp

Re: XSLT-accessed query params and testing existance

2004-07-08 Thread S . Woodside
On Jul 8, 2004, at 6:53 AM, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Is that line really necessary? Yes, but you can simplify it to it will automatically default to '' (empty string) if nothing is passed in. You need it in order to define the param inside the xslt. simon -- http://simonwoodside.com -

Re: XSLT-accessed query params and testing existance

2004-07-08 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 8, 2004 09:01 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On torsdag 8. juli 2004, 16:59, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: > > > Is that line really necessary? > > > > Not really.  It mainly can be used to supply a default, non-empty, > > value.  So, if you say:

Re: XSLT-accessed query params and testing existance

2004-07-08 Thread Tod Harter
There is of course an entirely different approach which is possible... Have your XSP capture the required input parameters and construct some output XML containing the data you need. Then you have some added flexibility by doing it with perl. I've found that generally thats the better overall te

Re: XSLT-accessed query params and testing existance

2004-07-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 8. juli 2004, 16:59, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: > > Is that line really necessary? > > Not really.  It mainly can be used to supply a default, non-empty, > value.  So, if you say: > > > > and then later say > >

Re: XSLT-accessed query params and testing existance

2004-07-08 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 8, 2004 03:53 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On onsdag 7. juli 2004, 18:41, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: > > > But then, I need to test whether a parameter exists... In XSP > > > that's straightforward, thanks to the many good taglibs, but I > > > h

Re: XSLT-accessed query params and testing existance

2004-07-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On onsdag 7. juli 2004, 18:41, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: > > But then, I need to test whether a parameter exists... In XSP > > that's straightforward, thanks to the many good taglibs, but I > > haven't found anything on checking the parameters in XSLT, is it > > doable? > > Well, the most common me