I think you must be referring to some different meaning of parameters
than the one in particular we are using, I at any rate am referring
specifically to xslt parameters which I can't see how those can be
used to demonstrate that ODF is broken.


Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On 10/9/07, Gannon Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMHO it would be better to use an ID transform output filter to
> generate ODF then transform that flat ODF "data file" using whatever
> parameters and processor you like.  Although I've not thought it
> through completely, it seems to me that the introduction of generalized
> parameters just before export could break ODF, or, more to the point,
> be used to "demonstrate" that the OO ODF implementation is broken.  Not
> that certain companies in Redmond, WA would ever consider doing that to
> Sun's Java (too late they already did!), er, I mean Sun's OpenOffice.
> ;-)
>
> --Gannon
> --- Svante Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bryan,
> >
> > You are right there is no GUI to add parameters to an XSLT processor
> > not
> > even a UNO API.
> >
> > Even more currently the Xalan jars are simply hardwired into the
> > Office.
> >
> > What about creating an UNO interface for XSLT processors and be able
> > to
> > add an XSLT processor as office extension?
> >
> > Part of such an interface should than be the possibility to add
> > parameter, which might solve your problem.
> >
> > And if we would have an extension mechanism for XSLT processors we
> > might
> > choose a different processor default, like Saxon for instance,
> > enabling
> > XSLT 2.0 for OpenOffice.org.
> >
> > The bad news I won't be able to spend time on this in the next
> > months.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Svante
> >
> >
> > bryan rasmussen wrote:
> > > Hi Stephen,
> > >
> > > IIRC the XSL-T engine used is Xalan. Main problems are not so much
> > to
> > > do with Xalan but with not being able to dynamically pass in
> > > parameters at transformation time from settings on the filter form,
> > > although OOo does pass in some parameters on its own, and
> > difficulties
> > > with the document function, the solution I generally used has been
> > to
> > > always establish an absolute path for my document function calls,
> > and
> > > to set parameters in an external file I can generate via various
> > > methods - one method is generating parameters for a filter to
> > access
> > > from an Xform.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Bryan Rasmussen
> > >
> > > On 10/7/07, Stephen Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Hi Gildor
> > >>
> > >> I would think the direction from ODF/XForms to XHTML/XForms is
> > quite doable
> > >> because the ODF supports a limited subset of XForms (model,
> > bindings, lists and
> > >> submissions). Not so easy to have XHTML/XForms to ODF/XForms of
> > course.
> > >> The challenge might be with the positioning of the form controls
> > in the XHTML
> > >> equivalent of the ODF which after all would be the main asset of
> > using OOo as
> > >> a WYSIWIG XForms editor.
> > >>
> > >> I've been trying to use the XSLT filter facility for OOo recently
> > for
> > >> the first time in
> > >> earnest and have found some problems which I'm concerned might be
> > due to
> > >> XSLT limitations and behaviors in the OOo XSLT engine. Anyone know
> > which
> > >> engine is used and know of any such peculiarities, by the way?
> > >>
> > >> I truly hope you get on well in trying such a conversion.
> > >>
> > >> Best regards
> > >>
> > >> Stephen Green
> > >>
> > >> On 07/10/2007, Gildor Oronar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> Dear all
> > >>>
> > >>> Is it possible to use the XForms documents created in OOO (host
> > language
> > >>> is probably ODF) in X-smiles? If not, is it difficult to write
> > some XSLT
> > >>> to transfer host language from ODF to XHTML so that can be used
> > in
> > >>> X-smiles? Or any other XForm player.
> > >>>
> > >>> OOO is the best (?) WYSIWYG XForms designer available and it
> > would be a
> > >>> pity if XForms designed in it can only be used with
> > XForms-enabled ODF
> > >>> reader (e.g. ooo itself).
> > >>>
> > >>> I don't know how OOO export-as-xhtml works, is it an complex XSL
> > sheet
> > >>> behind it? Then probably it's possible to adjust XSLT in it to
> > make it
> > >>> happen.
> > >>>
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