Re: Applying XSL transformation to non-xml (but fixed

The text is Drools rules, generated from a decision table originally
defined in Excel.
For any particular Excel sheet structure the rules will be rather
uniform, so full
parsing shouldn't be necessary. (BTW, Drools comes with an antlr grammar
for these DRL files.)

IMHO, using XSLT on texts like these isn't the right choice - see
Ruud's suggestions.

And, before I'm admonished, all of this is probably better discussed on the
Drools user list ;-)

-W

On 2 June 2010 16:07, Ruud Grosmann <rdgon@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ruud Grosmann wrote:
>>
>> Christian Schouten wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I need to apply an XSL transformation to a non-xml file that has a fixed
>>> structure.
>>> The goal is to read in the file, add/edit/delete a record and write it
>>> back.
>
> Anyway, I suggested him to consider to use a tool like perl or ruby. Why use
an xml tool for non xml input?
>
> regards, Ruud