[Babeldoc-devel] Story of parameters to the XslTransformer

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

All,

This story started simply:

I wanted to pass in a couple of parameters to the XslTransformPipelineStage so 
that the documentation output can be pretty...

Well, I then noticed that the parameters that the XSL stylesheets are of the 
form: xxxx.aaaa.bbb - now this really screws up the configuration passing 
scheme - it uses the '.' to find the components of the configuration.  So 
then it was necessary to update the parsing to quote parts some of the 
configuration so that it is possible to do the following:

1.  aaaa.bbbb.cccc.dddd=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
2.  aaaa.bbbb."cccc.dddd"=yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

are separate.

I am now using the CSVReader (from the csv19.jar) using the '.' as a separator 
and '"' as a quote character.  This means that more sophisticated quoting is 
possible.  The downside is that the configuration processing is potentially 
slower.

Please take a look at the TieredConfigurationHelper and the 
SimplePipelineStageResolver.

regards,
Bruce.

PS.  If anyone wants to go through some of the pipeline stages and expand the 
descriptions of the pipelinestages and the configuration options.