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You might be interested in http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/111/mhk-paper.html to see how far this kind of approach can take you. What you are proposing is much simpler. As you say, it could be done in a variety of ways, but it's certainly not overkill to use XSLT for this. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: 28 April 2006 22:09 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Is this strategy for runtime fixed-width->xml > conversions worthwhile? > > I'm wondering about viable strategies for runtime conversion > of fixed-width messages into XML (and back, I suppose). I > know there are various frameworks that do this, but it > occurred to me this could be done entirely with XSLT. > > The stylesheet would have a single template element, which > would cover the entire message format (unless there are > conditional pieces). The input to the stylesheet could be > empty, and a single stylesheet parameter would be the "input" > to the stylesheet. Each reference in the template to the > input would use the "substring()" function, to pull the > appropriate portion of the parameter into the element. > > I'm not sure exactly how the reverse direction would work, however. > > Is this approach at all worthwhile? What are specific > problems with this idea?
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