Re: XSLT In the Build Process?

Mitch Amiano wrote at  9 May 2003 15:54:20 -0400:
 > 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++.
...
 > How common is this approach? Anyone else have experience long-term
 > applying a similar approach?

Much of the C code for the Sun xmlroff XSL formatter [1] is generated
from the XML for the XSL 1.0 Recommendation.

If I may speak for Dave Pawson, the appendices in his XSL FO book are
also generated from the XML for the XSL 1.0 Recommendation.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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[1] http://xmlroff.sourceforge.net/

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