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[jira] Commented: (XALANJ-2088) Passing initial mode from command line
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2088?page=comments#action_64402 ]
Brian Minchau commented on XALANJ-2088:
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This issue will be brought to the PMC, and the PMC will decide on whether or not to implement this feature.
> Passing initial mode from command line
> --------------------------------------
>
> Key: XALANJ-2088
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2088
> Project: XalanJ2
> Type: Improvement
> Components: Xalan-CmdLine
> Versions: 2.6
> Environment: Windows 2000 Prof, Xalan-J 2.6.0, JRE 1.4.2_03
> Reporter: Mukul Gandhi
> Priority: Minor
>
> Hello,
> For this problem, I need to compare Xalan-J with Saxon and MSXSL. Both Saxon and MSXSL allow an initial mode to be passed to the transformation. Saxon has option -im , and MSXSL has option -m . That is we should be able to define a template rule for root node with a particular mode.
> i.e. , as
> <xsl:template match="/" mode="x">
> <!-- -->
> </xsl:template>
> This template rule does not give syntax error with Xalan(it should'nt as it is a valid rule according to XSLT 1.0 grammer). But we cannot invoke it from command line.. As Xalan command line does not have option to pass initial mode.
> We can only invoke template rules with default mode , i.e.
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <!-- -->
> </xsl:template>
> The XSLT 1.0 spec explicitly says (section "5.8 Built-in Template Rules")..
> <quote>
> The following shows the equivalent of the built-in template rule for mode m.
> <xsl:template match="*|/" mode="m">
> <xsl:apply-templates mode="m"/>
> </xsl:template>
> </quote>
> This gives impression that the template rule for root node in an initial mode exists. So the XSLT processor should provide an option to pass initial mode to the transformation..
> But I cannot find anywhere in spec that this is a mandatory requirement(i.e. passing initial mode). So I have not called this a bug, but as a "improvement request" ..
> Xalan might be providing this feature. But I am not aware about it.. If it does, then I am sorry.
> Regards,
> Mukul
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