Hi CJ,



cavecatem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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I don't know how oxygen evaluates the stylesheets, it just seemed inconsistent that it didn't mind that the sub-stylesheets didn't have their own xsl:param - declaration but hung on the variables. 

When you perform a stylesheet validation in oXygen it tries to create a 
Transformer out of that using the XSLT processor you have configured for 
XSLT validation. By default that is Saxon 6.5.5 for XSLT 1.0 and SaxonB 
8.6.1 for XSLT 2.0.



Now it is true that some stylesheets are not valid by themselves but are 
ok if they are imported or included from other stylesheets. In fact this 
is one of the things we discussed recently internally at oXygen and I 
would like to get some feedback from XSLT users. Basically for a 
stylesheet module (that is not intended to be used by itself) the 
validation should be performed on the main stylesheet (on the one that 
includes/imports directly or indirectly the module).



Now the problem is how that situation is handled:



1. One possibility is to allow the user to specify the main stylesheet 
through some action (for instance click on a button and enter the main 
stylesheet in a dialog).



2. Another approach is to analyze all the stylesheets from the current 
project and see how they are related wrt include/import and determine 
automatically the main stylesheet.



Both these approaches have bad points.



In the first case if there are a lot of modules the user has to make a 
lot of actions to specify for each module the main stylesheet and that 
may be annoying.



In the second case analyzing all the stylesheets in the project can take 
some time and after doing that it is possible to get more possible 
master stylesheets and in that case the user action will be required to 
determine the actual main stylesheet to be used.



So, what would you prefer? If you want to work in a totally different 
way, how would that be?



Best Regards,
George
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