[XML-SIG] Re: [4suite-dev] incremental XSL transformations

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> Felix Breuer wrote:
> 
> >Hello!
> >
> >I am looking for a XSLT processor that supports the following mode of
> >operation:
> >
> >Given:
> >  * a source DOM tree to be transformed
> >  * a XSLT stylesheet
> >
> >Initialization:
> >  * apply the stylesheet to the source tree to obtain a result DOM tree
> >  * obtain a mapping from the source tree to the result tree which maps
> >    elements/text nodes in the source tree to the set of elements/text
> >    nodes which have been generated from them by means of an XSLT
> >    template
> >
> >On changes in the source DOM tree:
> >  * incrementally modify the result tree accordingly
> >  * update the mapping
> >
> >For more on such incremental transformations see:
> >http://www.research.ibm.com/people/v/villard/Papiers/incXSLT.pdf
> >
> >Now my question is: Does 4XSLT or any other Python XSLT processor
> >support such a mode of operation or could be extended to support such a
> >mode of operation?
> 
> 4XSLT does not support such a mode, nor do I know of any other processor 
> at all, regardless of language, that does.  I think it could be extended 

  Actually Lionel Villard integrated it into Xalan Java Apache code base.

Daniel

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