Re: [Zopexmlmethods-devel] Override variable definitions via query string?

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

Craeg K Strong wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am using the latest and greatest ZopeXMLMethods from CVS, and I wanted
> to override an xsl:param dynamically.
> 
> My specific example is this:  I have a transformer that renders HTML for an
> arbitrary "article" doctype.  For most articles, you don't want a table 
> of contents.
> So I have the following at the top of article.xsl:
> 
> <xsl:param name="toc">no</xsl:param>
> 
> But for official project documents, we _do_ want a table of contents.
> Here, in my naivete, is that I tried to do inside my page template:
> 
>          <div tal:define="doc nocall:python:folder[docname]" >
>             <div tal:replace="structure doc/articlexsl?toc='yes'"/>
>          </div>

Unfortunately, the override support I added only works with REQUEST 
variables, which aren't set by TALES expressions.  So you could access 
doc/articlexsl?toc='yes' as a URL in your browser, but not within a page 
template.

-- Brent

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