RE: [xml-dev] XSLT: Variable href in <xsl:import>

From
Michael Kay <>
To
"'Thomas B. Passin'" <>,
Date
2004-08-12T07:43:24Z
ID
<20040812074319.BXKN798.mta08-svc.ntlworld.com@Turtle>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] XSLT: Variable href in <xsl:import>
> 
> There is another approach that does not involve a URIResolver at all. 
> After changing the location of the imports, just have either a batch 
> file or the program itself rewrite the imports section of the 
> stylesheet 
> with the current paths, as obtained from the configuration file.  You 
> could actually do this each time you run the program.
> 
> You could also do it with another xslt stylesheet, for that 
> matter, but 
> it would probably be easier to do with a bit of code.

Yes, this is certainly an option: but you need to be aware that recompiling
a stylesheet every time you run it is rather inefficient.

I can't see why anyone who knows XSLT would choose to do this with "a bit of
code" rather than with XSLT. 

Michael Kay