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Hi Karl, If you don't have Mike's book XSLT Programmer's Reference, you are missing something :) It discusses best practices, design patterns and many great things about XSLT. Hope you have this book, or will buy it :) Regards, Mukul On 7/20/05, Karl Koch <TheRanger@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > by now I have done some XSLT scripting mostly with our help and with > background from many many trials and good O'Reilly books :-). I have also > background in a range of programming languages. Coming from thie background > I find it quite difficult, but not impossible, to generate stylesheets. > However, ensuring that they do the rignt thing (on the semanic level) is > quite a headache. Therefore I have at least one or two tests for each > stylesheet (e.g. I have a stylesheet that removes structures which contain > title nodes; than I have another stylesheet that extracts only those who > contain titles and I compare their numbers (number of extraced structures) > regarding the original set. If they add up they do very probable the right > thing - OR THEY ARE BOTH WRONG TO THE SAME DEGREE). I guess you get my > problem here. It is really difficult and depends on the problem. It can also > go very easily completely wrong. If there are small errors it might result > in mistakes in the data which are almost impossible to find (e.g. in very > large data sets of 10000s of XML structures). > > My question here is: How do you verify your stylesheets? > > Is there software or methodlogy which deals with this problem? I think, the > incredibly flexiblity and power of XSLT is at the same time its problem. It > is very difficult to do the right thing. Just thinking and being careful and > checking the code 10 times does not help always... > > Perhaps somebody has references of methodologies or books/papers written > about this problem. Does somebody know good websites that contain some > information about good practise and guidelines of doing good stylesheets? A > discussion is more than welcome and I think it would be right place to have > one.... > > Looking forward to interesting experiences, comments and suggestions. > > Best Regards, > Karl > > -- > GMX DSL = Maximale Leistung zum minimalen Preis! > 2000 MB nur 2,99, Flatrate ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
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