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I've downloaded MSXSL and used it to generate HTML for a couple of document types, successfully but with a certain amount of frustration caused by (a) lack of diagnostics when I got things wrong, and (b) limited functionality. I've now implemented the same thing without XSL: I wrote an MSXML application in Java that does a recursive walk down the document tree and calls a registered "handler" class to process each element type. I added a number of helper methods such as isFirstOfType() to allow the handlers to get information about their context more easily. Here is an example of one of the handlers (for the XML element tagged SPEECH): class SPEECHHandler extends HTMLNodeWriter { public void handleElement(ElemNode e) { if (e.isFirstOfType()) System.out.println("<HR>"); e.walkChildren(); System.out.println("<BR>"); if (e.isLastOfType()) System.out.println("<HR>"); } } I have to report: - the element handlers looked very similar to the XSL rules - the number of DTD-specific lines of code was identical (106 in each case!) - it was far easier to debug - you can do very many things that you can't do in XSL, like sorting the children of a node according to some attribute value, or getting information about user preferences from an external database. I have yet to spot any disadvantages. I haven't looked at performance or footprint, but I can't see any intrinsic reason why XSL should be smaller or faster. (Currently some of the methods like isLastOfType() are very inefficient due to the limited navigation capabilities in MSXML. I could speed it up if I built my own tree!). Any XSL enthusiasts want to prove me wrong? Regards, Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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