Re: [RT] Improving Sitemap and Flowscript

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 13:28 Europe/Rome, Carsten Ziegeler 
wrote:

Sylvain Wallez wrote:
One thing missing is passing information from the pipeline to the
components.
For example if you write this pipeline:
<map:generate type="filteredFile" src="afile.xml">
 <map:parameter name="a parameter" value="a value"/>
...
I assume that the src info and the parameters are passed to the 
"real"
generator which in this case is the file generator. Is it
possible to pass
info to the other components as well, so can I pass a parameter to 
the
xslt transformer?
I'm not sure if this is needed (or if it's FS); I have not
thought about it
but it immediately came up my mind :)

You really have to consider virtual components as "typed resources",
this means we'll be able to pass parameters to these virtual 
components
just a we do today for resources.

<map:serializer type="abs-html">
  <map:transform type="link-absolutizer">
    <map:parametrer name="base-uri" value="{site-root}"/>
  </map:transform>
  <map:serialize type="html"/>
</map:serializer>
and then :
<map:serialize type="abs-html">
  <map:parameter name="site-root" value="http://my.host/root/"/>
</map:serialize>
Ah, ok ,so the given example:

    <map:generator name="filteredFile">
     <map:generate type="file"/>
     <map:transform type="xslt" src="namespaceFilter.xsl"/>
    </map:generator>
wouldn't work as the file generator would get not src, it has to:
    <map:generator name="filteredFile">
     <map:generate type="file" src="{src}"/>
     <map:transform type="xslt" src="namespaceFilter.xsl"/>
    </map:generator>
with
   <map:generate type="filteredFile">
      <map:parameter name="src" value="some.xml"/>
The only problem is for the "src" attribute. Should we simply pass it 
as
a "src" parameter ?

+1, yes because then it would look like this:

   <map:generate type="filteredFile" src="some.xml"/>

which is much more convenient.
I like this. +1

--
Stefano.