Suggestions

[Scott Deboy]

It sounds like my questions are all FAQs.  

I'm running through the xml-dev archives (the search engine sucks) and have
found a few threads on compound/compositional documents, dynamic DTDs,
transclusion and storing XML 'documents' in a relational database.

It appears I have a number of choices available when it comes down to
actually building XML dynamically, including XLL (TRANSCLUDE?) and XSL.

I'm still trying to find a good resource to discuss these issues which
obviously appear on the list month after month.

Any other points GREATLY appreciated - 

Thanks again,
Scott

> ----------
> From: 	James Tauber[SMTP:jtauber at jtauber.com]
> Sent: 	 April 14, 1999 9:31 AM
> To: 	Scott Deboy
> Cc: 	XML-Dev Mailing list
> Subject: 	Re: Suggestions
> 
> > Thanks for the suggestions, James
> >
> > Yes, this is 80% of what I'm looking for.  The other 20% is:
> >
> > If I could 'include' a reference to the optional paragraph (which will
> live
> > in a database) instead of directly embedding it in the XSL template (I
> want
> > to reuse the same optional paragraph in a number of documents).
> >
> > What if I store the paragraph references as database selects in the XSL
> > template and do the work of retrieving them from the database before the
> XSL
> > engine does its work?  Is there a better way?
> 
> What you might do is "construct" the XSL stylesheet by piecing together
> things in the database. You can do this just with your file system by
> using
> entities, seeing as XSL stylesheets are XML documents.
> 
> > It sounds like it's time to read up on XSL.
> 
> You won't regret it :-)
> 
> James
> 
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