Subject: [xsl] Re: is there any tool that automatically generates XSLT? From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:47:48 +0100 |
> Does anyone know of any tool out there that can > automatically generate the required XSLT if it is > given a sample input file and output file? Such a tool cannot exist (in general). As we have witnessed time after time in this list and other newsgroups, a simple pair: (xml document, result) is not sufficient to identify a single transformation. This means that if a transformation is suggested for a specific pair (xml document, result), it may not in general be useful in processing other xml documents that have the same structure/properties. A DTD or other kind of schema cannot fully describe an xml document, therefore any tool that is given a schema of the source xml document still may not have a precise formal description of its input. A formal description of the output may be even more difficult to provide, as the output of an XSLT transformation is not constrained to xml documents. Lastly, we have seen numerous examples when people cannot well describe their problem even informally and after many tries... It seems to me that if such tool existed and was really useful, it would have first learnt to think. Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev, FXSL developer, http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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