RE: Java Transformation

XQuery may be what you're looking for, eg:

define function print-title ($t as element()) {
  typeswitch ($t)
    case element(preface) return
      <div class="level1">{$t/title/text()}</div>
    case element(chapter) return
      <div class="level1">{$t/title/text()}</div>
    case element(section) return
      <div class="level2">{$t/title/text()}</div>
    default return ()
}

vs

<xsl:template match="preface|chapter">
  <div class="level1"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></div>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="section">
  <div class="level2"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></div>
</xsl:template>


Not that I've used it, as I'd rather think in terms of transformations than
procedures, though for some of the hairier things I do in terms of code
generation the non-xml syntax may outweight the difference.


Pete

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