Re: [Xmlstar-devel] enhanced_select branch

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

André Kaplan <ak...@la...> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've put an "enhanced" xml select version in the 'enhanced_select'  
> branch.
>
> The most useful switches to me currently are --var, --key and -- 
> choose/--when/--otherwise. But --import might be useful also.
> The --function/--param/--call-template/--with-param needs some  
> thinking since it's too verbose to my taste.
>
> I use variables mostly for clarity, and since they can hold nodesets,  
> it makes it easier to collect data from several places in an xml  
> document (or even several times from the same place).

Is it worth adding all these options? Your example shell commands look
like XSL with shorter tags (<tagname></tagname> becomes --tagname or
-t).

>
> Here's a little script which dumps the structure of an XML document  
> and demonsrates the use of --var and --choose/--when/--otherwise  
> switches.

I couldn't get this one to work. I got a whole bunch of warnings like:

warning: failed to load external entity "b"
warning: failed to load external entity "--when"


Noam