hi *!
i'm trying to find a way to associate stylesheets to documents (since
they can contain arbitrary xml, one per-doctype stylesheet won't do).
there is an xmldb doctype. a typical xmldb document contains one or more
xqueries that will return contents from a database when "rendered".
each of those documents needs one or more custom-tailored stylesheets.
these stylesheets are also plain old lenya documents of the doctype
"xslt", which allows me to edit them using oneform or to upload a new
one easily, and if i screw them up, i have rollback.
the problem is now: how do i associate these stylesheets with my xmldb
document? i have thought about several options:
* embedding a list of stylesheets in the xmldb document with a special
tag. nice, but i can't think of a way to get at those values to use them
in a <map:transform src="{here i need the values}"/> call. is there some
magic input module to do that? XMLFileModule does not do, since it needs
to know the filename at build time, whereas i need to apply it
dynamically to whatever document is requested.
* using custom metadata. that way, i could use the metadata input module
for the transform call. but i don't know the syntax, and i would like to
have the opportunity to associate more that one stylesheet to a
document, which gets kludgy since metadata fields always have a 1:1
relationship of fieldname and value...
* looking for xslt document nodes below the xmldb document in the
sitetree, and applying them in tree order. looks the most promising so
far, but how do i get the sitetree information in a sitemap?
if you have an idea, i'd like to hear about it.
thanks,
jörn
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