Re: Pull request : xsltproc --fileparam

On 17/01/2018 13:58, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2018-01-17 13:34:07 +0100, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
>> Why don't you simply use something like
>>
>>      --stringparam fileparam "$(cat test.txt)"
> 
> What if the text is too long for the command line?

I'd argue that xsl:param wasn't meant to handle multi-KB strings.

> Moreover, $() is lossy as it strips the trailing \n characters.

Not if $() is inside double quotes which prevent Field Splitting.

The best solution is probably to implement an extension function similar to 
`unparsed-text` from XSLT 2.0.

Nick