On Tuesday 05 February 2002 00:38, Tod Harter wrote: > Well, even in principle its not possible to BOTH cache something AND have > it be different every time...
Well, yeah, that's quite obvious :) I do have hope for quantum caching some day, but I'm not so open to entering it into AxKit's TODO right now. > Start with what you have to go on. There are some exslt functions which > would have predictable effects on the output, just depending on their > input. Yes, I thought of that, but it has solid problems. First, you need to analyse the stylesheet for extension functions that may have inconstant output, which isn't free. And to do that, you need to know which ones behave which way. Right now we have only exslt but if someone works out a way to link into libxslt's extension mechanism from Perl (looking at the docs it doesn't look too hard, though there may be limitations such as having to put all our extensions into the same namespace) there'll be plenty. We can't expect people to provide metadata with their extensions indicating whether or not they're stable. So basically that's not a real option unless someone has a brilliant idea (and the time to implement it). I'm afraid that we're stuck with documentation here :) -- _______________________________________________________________________ Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- CTO k n o w s c a p e : // venture knowledge agency www.knowscape.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
