Re: [xsl] Use of XSLT in "template driven code generation"

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>]

At 15:59 11-10-2001, Soumen Sarkar wrote:
>This post is to point out a relatively unknown use of XSLT.

Cool, but not quite unknown.  From May 2000 to January 2001, I worked for 
the now-defunct Lexica LLC, where we generated some fairly complex 
JavaScript for client-side form validation based on an XML description of 
the data space, via XSLT.  The original architecture was developed by Alex 
Milowski, so it was of course theoretically pure and abstract, and somewhat 
baroque. (-:  But it worked quite well (until the company got the plug 
pulled, but that's an entirely other story).

I still think there's a market for that kind of abstraction of a business 
model, but I have a feeling that legal entanglements would prevent me from 
developing them now. )-:

I'm also quite sure that Lexica was not the only group around doing 
this.  In fact, some of the code for the XSL formatter FOP is generated at 
compile time from XML-based declarations.

-Chris
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