Re: Getting the value of the browser selector

On 19/12/13 12:46, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Peter,
>
>> On Dec 19, 2013, at 4:24, Peter Flynn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Let me try again in a shorter post :-)
>>
>> 1. Has anyone ever used the browser selector?
>>
>> 2. Can it be used to pass the *value* to a transformation as a parameter without resorting to map:when, instead of just doing selection?
>
> Isn't the "value" of the browser selector the same as the "user-agent" header value?

I don't think so. 
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/browser-selector.html says:

<map:select type="browser">
   <map:when test="netscape">
   ....
   </map:when>
   <map:when test="explorer">
   ...
   </map:when>
   ...
   <map:otherwise>
   ...
   </map:otherwise>
</map:select>

In other words you can take alternate action based on the test="..." 
value, but you cannot pass that actual value into the XSLT as a parameter.

> You can just pass-in the header to the transformation... No need for the browser selector.

But then I'd have to parse the user-agent string in my XSLT. The whole 
point of the browser selector is that it's done for you in the sitemap.

///Peter
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