Re: Need some Advice

Just to point out some rules on how a XSLT should be written, you can 
have a look at Sonar-Xsl[1], by Jim Etevenard, and its talk at XML 
Prague[2]. When this project was presented at Prague, there were very 
few discussions on good or poor writing rules, but a lot of interest 
from community for such a tool ; the entire community agreed the rules used.

I'm sure your guy uses Sonar to check code, and relies on it ! Just ask 
to add a new plugin to Sonar, and have an independant analysis result !

Behing the scene, this plugin is based on some schematron rules, written 
by Matthieu Ricaud[3], and based on various sources, Mukul Gandi, Gerrit 
Imsieke, and others

Hope this helps you to make the other guy take the right road !
Christophe

[1] https://github.com/sonar-xsl/Sonar-XSL-Plugin
[2] https://www.xmlprague.cz/day3-2019/#sonar and 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFHsVQjJPA&list=PLQpqh98e9RgVcYmjmJ9OXrkHNDXuYB035&index=19
[3] https://github.com/mricaud/xslt-quality

Le 04/02/2022 C  19:01, Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx a C)critB :
> Hello All,
> I need some advice from you all. I have been working with XSLT for 
> last 15 years and I have now come across a contract opportunity with a 
> financial firm in Australia and I am like weeks into it. I was told 
> that the clients are bound with XSLT1.0 and XSLT 2.0 does not work. I 
> was wondering why it does not work. I asked if they used MS parser 
> etc. and nothing of that sort is happening. When I looked into the 
> code i figured why xslt2.0 wont work. it wont because of the wrong 
> coding. xml elements are coded as text using < and > and the 
> textB  is not in the xsl:text andB  xpaths areB  all unbelievable . No 
> one with even 1 year of exp with xslt will even fathom such xpaths. 
> there are circular xpaths, no keys .. no variables. using the same 
> complicated xpaths over and over again in consecutive lines of code. 
> and its all a mess. Super mess and it makes me cry.B  So messed up that 
> you can not format the code because you will break the spacing in the 
> text nodes..The reasoning.? The one who did the initial work was a 
> contractor who did not know Xslt.
>
> part 2 of the story..
> I started coding and I have a muscle memory of doing the things in a 
> certain way ( hopefully the right way ).. I was pulled in into a 
> meeting saying that my code is messed up and that I am doing things 
> the way that is against the coding standards practice of company .. 
> every line of the code was changed to how they do it/// . keys 
> removed, xsl:text removed, and every nightmare i imagine was asked to 
> make and by me. I checked in the code now they way they do, knowing 
> very well that it is messy..
>
> I am pulled everyday and told that my XSLT coding is not correct. I 
> have always stood as the XSLT conscience and people have learnt from 
> me. Not blowing trumpets of myself, but the current situation is very 
> basic very very basic. I did not do these mistakes on my first job 
> with no experience.
>
> What do I do??
> 1.Resign and let them be as they want to ?
> 2. continue and do the coding the way they want and hopefully I will 
> get used to it in a couple of months and I suffer until then
>
> My heart breaks here to see the attitude that someone is holding my 
> hand to make me do bad things..... The attitude is clear. "you shall 
> do as we say". You can chuck your XSLT coding practices..
>
> Makes me remember a contractor who came home to cut trees. I asked him 
> to do it a certain way and he said he wouldn't do it even if I gave 
> him 2000 GBP.
>
> Please advice.
> Dr. Tapaal Dakota
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