RE: hard core xlt ;-)

Hi Dylan,

could you post an code example of an XSLT that generates an XSLT?
I could use an example.

Kind regards,
Joost Fleuren.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dylan Walsh
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 1:32 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Elise D.
> Subject: RE:  hard core xlt ;-)
> 
> 
> Here are some comments what I consider to be two of the harder/hardest
> things to do in XSLT:
> 
> 1. "Generic" XSLT. Usually you write a stylesheet with assumptions about
> the structure of the input XML. Generic XSLT makes no such assumptions.
> It processes the source in terms of node types. An element contains
> other elements, attributes, text, comments, etc. Start at the root node
> and drill down, using recursion (e.g. element template calls
> apply-templates on its subelements).
> A few months after starting to learn XSLT, I created two stylesheets
> using this approach. One of them takes any XML and creates a
> colour-coded and indented HTML "pretty print" of the XML. You could use
> it to present itself. The other stylesheet took created a specimen of
> XML and generated a first-cut DTD. 
> I had to ask a lot of questions on this list, but I learned an enormous
> amount about XSLT.
> 
> 2. XSLT that generates XSLT. The issue here is that you have two
> namespaces for the XSLT, one for the actual instructions in the
> stylesheet, and one for the XSLT you will be generating. It is not
> always difficult, depending on how much variation there is in the output
> stylesheet. The tricky thing is that you are effectively writing two
> transformations at the same time, each applying to different source XML,
> and you have to think about e.g. which transformation should make a
> given decision.
> 
> Both of these are great lessons in XSLT. There are others
> - simulating "looping" using recursion  
> - the misc. sorting issues and the Muenchian method (will be obsolete in
> XSLT 2.0?)
> 
> and I'm sure people can add to that list. Possibly the final step would
> be to implement XSLT yourself, but you don't have to build cars to be a
> good driver.
> 
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