Re: Pull request : xsltproc --fileparam

On 2018-01-17 14:40:58 +0100, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> 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.

I'd say that this is unusual, but why not? Is there a limit given
by the standards?

> > Moreover, $() is lossy as it strips the trailing \n characters.
> 
> Not if $() is inside double quotes which prevent Field Splitting.

Field splitting is a different thing.

$ printf "%s" "$(echo a)"

and

$ printf "%s" "$(echo a; echo)"

give the same result.

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