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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: is there any tool that automatically generates XSL
 Does anyone know of any tool out there that can automatically generate the required XSLT if it is given a sample input file and output file? I think that's the same as asking "is there a tool that looks at my data and my output and writes a C program to produce it?" ... if such a tool existed there would be a lot of people out of work! But, if you asked "is there a tool that will generate an XSLT stylesheet from an annotated output file where the annotations reflect properties of the input file?", there is a partially-developed free resource on our web site called "LiterateXSLT" that does just that. I experimented with the concept to write the UBL 0.70 XSLT stylesheets for XSL-FO: I created the XSL-FO output first, then annotated it in a private namespace with information about the source file, pressed the button and out came an XSLT stylesheet that worked with any XML input file that matched the annotations. I shipped those XSLT stylesheets unaltered because they were sufficiently detailed and structured to be standalone stylesheets. I say "partially developed" because when I went to generalize what worked for me for UBL to a truly general solution, I hit a brick wall on the rationalization of concatenated XPath location path expressions due to the limitation of the first step of a location path. I'm thinking that with XSLT 2 LiterateXSLT probably could become a truly generalized solution for annotating candidate results and synthesizing XSLT stylesheets. I don't have the time or the problems to solve needed to progress the experimentation into anything of production quality. I've released the first version of LiterateXSLT as a free resource under the modified BSD license, so you can download it and play with it if you want. I hope this helps. ...................... Ken -- Public courses: upcoming world tour of hands-on XSL training events Each week: Monday-Wednesday: XSLT/XPath; Thursday-Friday: XSL-FO Washington, DC: 2004-03-15 San Francisco, CA: 2004-03-22 Hong Kong: 2004-05-17 Germany: 2004-05-24 England: 2004-06-07 World-wide on-site corporate, government & user group XML training! 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 (F:-0995) Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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