Re: Top 10 XSLT patterns

In the course the following XSLT design patterns are discussed:

  Using and overriding the identity rule.

  Recursion.

  Avoiding the use of XSLT conditional instructions.

  Fill-in the blanks.

  Lookup-tables.


These are what I consider the most important design patterns, and
there certainly are other, less frequently used important patterns.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Abel Braaksma (Exselt) <abel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While going over Dimitre's new XSLT course, I was wondering about the
> following: would it be possible to compile a list of, say, top 10 of the
> most used XSLT design patterns?
>
> Something like (unordered as of yet):
> - modified identity transform
> - fill-in-the-blanks
> - aggregate transforms (totals, averages, counts etc)
> - sorting
> - flat-to-hierarchy
> - hierarchy-to-flat
> - unparsed text mining (?)
> - data merging
>
> Not sure whether each of them can be given a true programming pattern,
> and surely, I am missing many obvious cases (any you would like to
> add?). I am often of the impression that the modified identity transform
> is by far the most widely used, but I can be wrong, perhaps it is
> aggregation or fill-in-the-blanks?
>
> It will likely be non-trivial to compile such list without a good query
> to search through existing stylesheets and known programming challenges.
> But from your experience, what patterns do you encounter most often?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Abel Braaksma
> Exselt XSLT 3.0 processor
> http://exselt.net
>



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