[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: The Lazy Syntax for XSLT, or TLSX
I would suggest that the "the spirit of the XXX effort" is not that syntactic structure is represented by angle brackets (or by spaces either), but rather that syntactic structure is encoded in tags (and that tags are specified by DTD's). And I would contrast that with encoding syntactic structure in the control flow of a parser that acepted things like > var y = {call f {with x=3;}} If I want to produce XSL like > <xsl:variable name="y"> > <xsl:call-template name="f"> > <xsl:with-param name="x" select="3"/> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:variable> then I use something like <variable name="y" template="f" param="x" select="3"/> with a DTD that tells me what those attributes are. Then <xsl:template match="variable"> <xsl:value-of select="@name"/> <xsl:element name="xsl:variable"> <xsl:attribute name="name"> <xsl:value-of select="@name"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:element name="xsl:call-template"> <xsl:attribute name="name"> <xsl:value-of select="@template"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:element name="xsl:with-param"> <xsl:attribute name="name"> <xsl:value-of select="@param"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="select"> <xsl:value-of select="@select"/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:element> </xsl:element> </xsl:element> </xsl:template> gives me the XSL that I want to deliver, or install, or whatever. (I hope I don't have to explain why this lengthy "meta-XSL" is not more trouble than the target XSL is.) Jeff XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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