ready for 1.7.3

[Donald Ball <ba...@webslingerZ.com>]

I'm ready for 1.7.3 now, thanks to Scott Boag for talking me through the
XSLT parameter stuff.

- donald

Re: ready for 1.7.3

[Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org>]

Donald Ball wrote:
> 
> I'm ready for 1.7.3 now, thanks to Scott Boag for talking me through the
> XSLT parameter stuff.

Great, let's go.

-- 
Stefano Mazzocchi      One must still have chaos in oneself to be
                          able to give birth to a dancing star.
<st...@apache.org>                             Friedrich Nietzsche
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RE: ready for 1.7.3

[Donald Ball <ba...@webslingerZ.com>]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Kevin O'Neill wrote:

> Would you like to share the "talk" :) "XSLT parameter stuff" has got me a
> little stuffed also.

I reckon I can get it right. XSLT parameter names must be valid XML
QNames, so I wrote in a routine to not import into XSLT those HTTP request
parameters whose names aren't valid XML QNames. Furthermore, XSLT
parameter values, at least in Xalan, are interpreted according to the
rules for XPath expressions, so values that contained '$', for instance,
were causing cocoon to fail since Xalan couldn't resolve the "variable".

We went back and forth for a little while over whether or not this was the
correct thing for Xalan to be doing. The consensus was a firm maybe. Scott
said they might revisit the issue for Xalan-1.1, but that for the time
being the safest thing to do was wrap incoming values in quotes to force
them to be considered strings. I have the nagging feeling that the quoting
algorithm that was suggested isn't going to work in all cases, but I can't
work on it anymore right now and I don't want to hold up 1.7.3 any longer.

- donald

RE: ready for 1.7.3

[Kevin O'Neill <ke...@vcpl.net>]

Would you like to share the "talk" :) "XSLT parameter stuff" has got me a
little stuffed also.

K.