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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Hiding the XSL ?
 Is anybody aware of a way in which the XSL can be hidden from public view ? During the Paris GCA XML Conference I asked the developers of Sun's XSLTC compiler http://www.sun.com/xml/developers/xsltc/ to implement an obfuscation feature that would, on invocation option, make the resulting translet difficult to reverse engineer. The result of reverse engineering might give hints to the algorithm, but would certainly not include all of your rich documentation (we all include rich documentation in our stylesheets, right?) or self-documenting names of XSLT constructs (templates, variables, etc.) for others to see. I haven't seen it yet, but hope it gets implemented. I would ideally like some sort of binary Remembering that the XML used in the stylesheet is a valid input to the transformation process, obfuscation would defeat those stylesheets taking advantage of this feature. The translet implemented in Java byte code is the closest I think you'll get until we see products that might compile the stylesheet into native binary. I too feel very strongly there are many stylesheets and business situations where it makes sense to hid the contents and/or the algorithms. ................ Ken -- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) Web site: XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML services, training, libraries, products. Book: Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN1-894049-05-5 Article: What is XSLT? http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/08/holman Next public instructor-led training: 2000-09-19/20,2000-10-03, - 2000-10-04,2000-10-05,2000-10-09/10,2000-10-19,2000-11-12, - 2000-12-03/04,2001-01-27 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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