277031 - XSLT Template Framework

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Sean McMurray]

This is a small xbl that provides inline XSLT templating.

Comment 1

[Sean McMurray]

Attachment: XBL for inline XSLT Templating

Comment 2

[Sean McMurray]

Attachment: CSS with xbl bindings, and to not display templates

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht]

I'd prefer to see only asynch requests in general.

I'm not sure if I would like one binding or two bindings, too.

But much more than anything, I would like to see examples. I don't trust our
XSLT engine and XUL. Examples that should eventually work include
 - all kind of menus (with the template hooked up at the root or somewhere in the
   middle of the menu structure
 - xul:tree (hopefully in a somewhat familiar markup structure to rdf templates)
 - xul boxes.

From looking at the code, I don't see how anything generated is actually shown.

Last and least, modification events on style and source should retrigger 
transforms possibly with a timeout so that batch changes get only one rebuild.

Comment 4

[Sean McMurray]

There is a simple example at http://www.mvdsl.com/~mcmurrays/myTemplateIdea.xul.
It has a tree and a few menulists.

I agree about the timeout for triggering transforms. As it stands, a template
connected to a datasource will transform once for each change to any datasource.
So even if you populate each datasource in a single shot, the template
transforms once for each datasource. I mentioned before that it would be nice to
consolidate all transform requests in a queue or timeout or something.

As for how the content is actually shown, lines 70-75 remove outdated content
and insert new content into the document.