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XSLT made simple
- From: "James Pasley" <james dot pasley at capeclear dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:59:25 +0100
- Subject: [xsl] XSLT made simple
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Inspired by the recent mention of XSLScript and ShoXS on this list I have
written an XSLT stylesheet which displays XSLT in an easy to read format.
Its available at:
http://www.capescience.com/simplifiedxslt.xslt
One nice feature is that once you add the stylesheet processing instruction
(see below) to the start of an XSLT file, when opened in a web browser, it
will appear in the simplified form.
<?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.capescience.com/simplifiedxslt.xslt"
type="text/xsl"?>
I've stayed faithful to the XSLT keywords, as I hope this will serve as a
halfway house for people who are put off by the XML syntax. I am looking for
other ways of making the XSLT we write more readable to our customers. I
would be very interested in feedback on ways of doing this.
For example, does replacing an xsl:choose containing a single xsl:when and
xsl:otherwise with an if, then, else improve things or just add an extra
level of confusion.
For the Web Services guys among you I started by simplifying the syntax for
WSDL, you can read about that at:
http://www.capescience.com/articles/simplifiedWSDL/
Regards,
James.
Cape Clear Software Limited.
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Dublin 2
Ireland
Email : james.pasley@capeclear.com
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