[Zopexmlmethods-devel] Overriding parameters with REQUEST variables

[Brent M H. <br...@ec...>]

As I mentioned in my previous email, I need the behavior of allowing 
REQUEST variables to override stylesheet parameters.  This allows 
individual users to see customized behaviors based on session data, 
cookies, or form data.

Primarily this involves editing getXSLParameters() to query the REQUEST 
object for each parameter.  However, this means that getXSLParameters() 
needs to receive REQUEST, so I modified the .transform() method to pass 
it along.

I've made the changes for LibXsltProcessor.py, and it should be trivial 
to do it for the other processors as well[1].  It seems to work as 
intended, although I can't claim to have do extensive testing.  I can 
post the patch if you are interested.

--Brent

[1]  While looking at this, I noticed that the exact same 
getXSLParameters() code is replicated in every processor implementation. 
  Would it perhaps be better to move this code into the XSLTMethod class 
and then pass the parameters as a dictionary to processor.transform()?



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