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RE: Schema, BNF and parsing

• To: "'Rick Marshall'" <rjm@z...>
• Subject: RE: Schema, BNF and parsing
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:09:28 -0000
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> do you have an example? 

Not one that can be published without a considerable amount of work,
unfortunately.

But to take one example, a client was churning out multiple stylesheets to
do different reports on the same data. They were all 90% the same. We found
a way of parameterizing it by reading the sort criteria and grouping
criteria in the form of XPath expressions held in a report definition
document, and evaluating them dynamically within a highly recursive
framework stylesheet, and all of a sudden we could produce any report the
users wanted just by changing a couple of lines in the definition file.

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

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