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Re: [xsl] Saxon auto-recognition of sequence of XML and XSLT document possible ?

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>>>>> "Florent" == Florent Georges <darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx> writes:

    Florent> Mukul Gandhi wrote: Hi

    >> <quote> Is there no Auto-recognition from Saxon to detect which
    >> of the two documents is the XML and which the XSLT stylesheet
    >> and hence allow also

    >> java -jar dir/saxon8.jar [options] stylesheet source-document [
    >> params...]  </quote>

    >> Is this possible with Saxon..?

    Florent>   If IIRC, the goal is to can use drag n drop in Windows
    Florent> to drop both a stylesheet and an XML document at the same
    Florent> time on a shortcut that call Saxon.  A very simple "GUI"
    Florent> for Saxon.  But the OP can't guarantee the order of the
    Florent> parameters.

    Florent>   So he can write an alternate front-end to Saxon (an
    Florent> other Java class with a main() method) that uses Saxon
    Florent> and allows any order of its file parameters (detecting
    Florent> which one is the stylesheet by looking into the
    Florent> documents).

    Florent>   I didn't think about the details, but for such an
    Florent> interactive use, that is faisable, with no big
    Florent> difficulty.

It is impossible (in general).
Because they may both be stylesheets.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

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