• To: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>,"'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@i...>
• Subject: RE: Schema, BNF and parsing
• From: Andrew Jeavons <apj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:41:31 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <E1D7IMU-0000Nu-00@u...>
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At 02:21 PM 3/4/2005, Michael Kay wrote:
> > My real "beef" is the 2666 line script. It has numerous
> > redundancies (i.e. duplicate code) and looks like a nightmare
> > to maintain.
>
>
>It's a common problem. I once reduced a 2000-line stylesheet to 20 lines
>plus some data tables. There are lots of people who learn how to write
>concrete XSLT code without learning how to write it generically at a higher
>level of abstraction. The same is probably true of most languages.

At least you're giving me some hope here - as it stands it is 
unmaintainable...do you consult ? :-)


>Michael Kay
>http://www.saxonica.com/

Andrew Jeavons

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