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The obvious API for me is one that allows me to take advantage of the query portion of XSL. For example, a call like this NodeSet ns = SAXSL.queryNodes(currentNode, "./book[@title = 'foo']"); or ala JDBC XSLQuery q = SAXSL.createQuery("./book[@title = '?']"); q.setString(1, "foo"); NodeSet ns = SAXSL.queryNodes(currentNode, q); I recently had an application where I needed to match nodes in the input tree, however, I didn't need any transformation at all. I just catch data, and do event processing. Now, I could use XSL to write out a result tree, and then use SAX to process the result tree, but that's clearly overkill. Or, I could use SAX directly, but using SAX is like using Lex. If I want to match strings according to a context free grammar, I have to hand code all the stack and query logic. I'd much rather have something like SQL: Here's my query, give me a result set, or perform this callback. Another useful API is a debugging API. At XML98, I presented a hacked up version of DocProc's XSL processor with a Java front end. The idea was that one could set "break points" on XML elements in the input tree or rules in the stylesheet. Then, you could process the style sheet, single step the engine, and watch visually exactly how the matcher is progressing through the input tree. I thought it would be very useful especially for large style sheets with lots of modes, or rules with differing specificity matching the same nodes. -Ray XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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