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Passin, Tom wrote:
[Mitch Amiano] So, you practice merciless refactoring on your XML, and make XML drivers for specific transformation tasks? Is there some MVC-like pattern there, a "Source Transformer Audience" as it were? Earlier, I would have thought in terms of the steps I needed to take to get the result. I think that this evolution is very similar to the progression from process-centric to data-centric view which been going on for a decade or two. For many (most?) business-type tasks the main work can be seen as transforming data from one form to another. Data tends to be much more persistent than the procedures that created it, and in those situations, data-centric is very valuable. The case I referred to was most definitely not a business information system. Still, the developers immediately realized that a lot of the program code already consisted of tables, encoded with long lists of #define manifest constants, static arrays, and structures with bit fields. The ability to readily match existing bit-field manipulation code through XML/XSLT was a major selling point over the UML tool at the time. Sometimes it just takes a sidelong look at a process to be able to identify a strong reusable information component. Have you seen Cleaveland's book "Program Generators with XML and Java" (Prentice Hall PTR)? No, I haven't, but I will. Thanks for the pointer. Cheers, XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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