Re: XSLT for Extensibility

* Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> [2005-01-29 15:32]:
> >    How do you allow the user to plug in new tasks?
> > 
> >    This is a general problem I'm having, how do you create hooks,
> >    callbacks, er, how do you create an XSLT framework?
> > 
> 
> Read about FXSL. It is a system to build and use higher-order
> functions in pure XSLT.

    [snip]
> 
> >    --
> > 
> >    I asked elsewhere, and pipelines were suggested
> 
> This is naturally done in FXSL by functional composition. As result
> otherwise difficlut problems can be solved in a one-liner XPath
> expression.
> 
> Read more about FXSL at:

>                http://fxsl.sf.net

    For one project I'm opting to use pipelines of sorts. I'll
    generate intermediate files, and transform them further.

    Using this method, I can see how one would create a two step
    process, or three step process, but not how one would create a
    properly recursive process.

    Where I'm using Saxon 8.X, I'll start using FXSL.

    I can see how callbacks, and curried functions could be used to
    define an API, but I'm sure there is a lot to learn in practice. 

    Where can I see examples of an API specified in FXSL? Or is it
    so young that I sould study Haskell for best practice?

    Also, I see no lists for FXSL. Is this the correct forum in
    which to field new user questions?

    Thanks for recommending this. I'm looking forward to finally
    learning functional programming.

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Alan Gutierrez - alan@xxxxxxxxx