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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: What's your visual metaphor for XSL Transformation
 1. There is no need to have any source XML document. 1. A short while ago, I put a UUID generator from XSLT to the list. It does not need any input and it will create any number of UUIDs. 2. One of our applications create a commands tree out of thin air. The XSLT is in 1.0 (it is browser based), but still doesn't need input (unfortunately, XSLT 1.0 did not provide such a means, so I use the simple-enough workaround to apply the XSLT on itself and discard the transformation). The commands are created by inputs and are provided with parameters. You could see it as a SOAP command generator, though the XML it generates is a bit simpler than that. 3. Another application we have generates a report of all kinds of system properties. This is handy for system administrators, it uses the system-property(xyz) with properties set in our application. Why XSLT? Because it is so easy to create XSL-FO from it and render it to a nice PDF or HTML page. No input there either. 4. If you take a look at FXSL you will see a lot of math there that does not require any input XML. It even has a random generator! 5. Most of my other transformations transform non-XML documents into XML. To do this, the XSLT is run without input document (-it for Saxon to start an initial template). The documents are read in with unparsed-text(). However, I do consider this input, albeit not XML. I believe one can sail without wind, when you use a motorboat ;) -- Abel 
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