Article:		XSLT Reflection
Subject:		Real Reflection ?
Date:		2003-11-07 06:41:46
From:		Jirka Kosek
Response to: Real Reflection ?
It is a matter of definition, which can vary from person to person. But as Oleg said the reflection is only reflection -- it allows you to access code writen in some language within this language. This way works reflection in many other languages, e.g. Java. Dynamic evaluation of the code during the runtime means that you have programmatic access to compiler/interpreter at runtime. This is a built-in feature of some langauges. XSLT doesn't offer this, but it should be possible (at least in theory) to implement XSLT processor in XSLT and then you will be able to do dynamic evaluation at the runtime.

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• Real Reflection ?
  2005-01-17 12:00:15 mnl05 [Reply]
  
  I had a question regarding xsl revision. Once we dynamically generate xsl file and deploy it on cliet site, client might do some additional but restricted changes such as add few lines of text in between. In next phase, we might also do some changes in the xsl and now the challenge is to incorporate the changes the client has done in the previous version of xsl into new file we are going to deploy in this next phase. I would really appreciate the suggestion as to what would be the right approach.

  
  Best regards,
  mnl05