Re: Rexsel — A simpler way of writing XSLT

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Subject: Re: Rexsel — A simpler way of writing XSLT
From: "Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:26:06 -0000

On 30/06/2024 14:22, Hugh Field-Richards hsfr@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Clearly I should have done some more homework on this, sighb&

The thing that prompted me to design Rexsel was all the
years spent on using OmniMark, then crossing over to XSLT,
and then needing to bpretty-printb some XSLT to make it a
bit more readable.

I'm speaking in ignorance of other editors here, as I've been using Emacs with xslide-mode for two decades, and it both colourises and indents XSLT pretty well, as well as the usual auto-complete. I had always assumed other editors did much the same.

But I take the point that once you get your head round the
XSLT syntax it is not a problem,

The problem is not [us] XML-heads: most of us have pointy brackets growing out of our ears. The target is programmers of languages which use nested indented curly-brace syntax where everything is an argument to everything else and where you begin by declaring your entire program to be null and void, who expect all other languages to be the same. For that demographic, both XMQ and REXSEL may be useful tools.

Alternate syntaxes are always being invented, both as programming languages and as markup languages. They keep us looking young and beautiful. The only one I have personally found to be of use in recent years has been Relax NG compact syntax, simply because life is too short to use W3C Schemas.

Peter

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Re: Rexsel — A simpler way of writing XSLT, (continued)
- Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx - 30 Jun 2024 11:30:47 -0000
  - Hugh Field-Richards hsfr@xxxxxxxxxx - 30 Jun 2024 13:22:08 -0000
    - Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx - 30 Jun 2024 16:26:06 -0000 <=
    - Chris Papademetrious chrispitude@xxxxxxxxx - 30 Jun 2024 17:19:46 -0000
    - Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx - 30 Jun 2024 20:50:42 -0000
    - Hugh Field-Richards hsfr@xxxxxxxxxx - 30 Jun 2024 18:48:48 -0000
    - Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 30 Jun 2024 19:45:59 -0000

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