RE: XSLT In the Build Process?

Well, I've written a test tool that uses the .NET Framework CodeDOM to
create C# or VB code.  For example, I have a tag like:

<VariableDeclaration name="var" type="System.String"/>

And this will generate:

String var;

This turned out to be quite a novel approach to the problem I was
facing.  Using this technique you can in theory generate source in any
language supported by the CodeDOM.

Dion

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Amiano [mailto:mitch.amiano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:54 PM
To: xsl-list
Subject:  XSLT In the Build Process?

I've observed a team of developers using XSLT as a build tool to
generate C++ code, instead of using the UML tool that had been selected
for them (Rhapsody). They modelled various aspects of the problem domain
using XML, and used XSLT templates to pump out C++.

Reasons for their decision to go down this path included the precise
control they could exercise over the code generation framework and hence
the generated code, the ease of revising the XML inputs and XSLT
templates, and the seamless fit with their Unix based ClearCase
configuration management and "make" based build scripts.

How common is this approach? Anyone else have experience long-term
applying a similar approach?

- Mitch 


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