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The last two year I have been doing quite a bit of XSL scripting, but after a while I found the syntax to be a bit too verbose to my taste. So, to help do the scripting I put together a little tool that translates XSL to a more compact syntax, edit in that syntax and translate back to XSL. This syntax is ShoXS (SHOrter Xsl Syntax, you get it:-). ShoXS is a bit Javascript-ish, as far as XSL allows this. Just to give an impression, an XSL fragment from the XSL FAQ and its ShoXS equivalent: ===============================XSL=============================== <xsl:template name="displayyear"> <xsl:param name="yearlist"/> <xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-before($yearlist,',')"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="string-length($year) > 0"> <td><xsl:value-of select="$year"/></td> <xsl:call-template name="displayyear"> <xsl:with-param name="yearlist"><xsl:value-of select="substring-after($yearlist,',')"/> </xsl:with-param> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <td><xsl:value-of select="$yearlist"/></td> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> ===============================ShoXS============================== fun displayyear { par yearlist=""{} var year="substring-before($yearlist,',')"{} switch { case(string-length($year) > 0) { <td>val($year)</td> call displayyear { wpar yearlist=""{val(substring-after($yearlist,',')) } } } default{ <td>val($yearlist)</td> } } } =================================================================== If you want to see a bit more about ShoXS, have a browse on http://www.xm.co.nz/ShoXS.htm where you can find ShoXSPad, a notepad like tool to toggle between XSL and ShoXS. A bit more useful is a version integrated in jEdit, which I use myself. It should be easy to get to grips with ShoXS if you know XSL: just key in the XSL, toggle to ShoXS and look at the ShoXS equivalent. Let me know if you have any constructive comments or suggestions (or find any bugs). Enjoy, Remco rrb@xxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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