Re: general purpose tranformation language (Re: No side effects holy cow. )

[Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to snip an extremely long post and reply with this: Build your
own.

As an example I built XPathScript. It's 251 lines of code, and a third of
that is documentation. It implements a combination of ASP-like <% %>
brackets and XPath for node resolution. It's built in perl and so uses
perl as it's in-built language:

<%
foreach my $node (findnodes('/some/xpath/here')) {
	print "<b>Found a node!</b><br>\n";
}
%>

It doesn't do nifty things like XSLT can do with apply-templates. I think
something like this would suffice:

$transforms->{'tag'}{pre} = "<h1>";
$transforms->{'tag'}{post} = "</h1>";

After all - most apply-templates stuff breaks down into what comes before
a tag and what comes after it. The rest can be done with the "Literal
Result Element" part. I think... :)

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