Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Database Tables

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> We add another configuration parameter to the XslTransform that
provides
> the
> XSL document inline.  This will be in addition to the file
configuration
> parameter.  So the logic is:
>
> 1.  If the file/url parameter is not null, load from the url
> 2.  if the inline parameter is not null, use the XSL in the parameter
>
>
> I'm not sure of the method signature that would take this, but is it
> possible to have an overloaded implementation that has one method that
> takes a URL and another that takes a String?

No, we have another configuration parameter for the XslTransform
pipeline
stage called, say transformationScript.  This contains the script inline

> Also, how would this information be stored in the Properties Files /
> CONFIG table?  An additional key/value pair or column?  Or are you
> thinking of using the existing key / cfg_value field to store EITHER
the
> URL or the actual script?  If this is your choice, the db schema has
to
> change to support more than 255 chars.

Bingo - we will have to increase the storage area.  The script will get
stored
in the cfg_value column.
>>

Sounds good to me.  However, I feel strongly that the database fields
needs to be an unlimited length text field, which may require special
JDBC processing like you have for BLOBs ... but I was under the
assumption that JDBC 2.0 supported this directly without special coding.

Also, is this type of functionality needed for other Pipeline Stages
(other than XslTransform)?

Erik