Re: [xsl] XSLT use cases; data-centric to document-centric transformations

[Peter Gerstbach <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:40:13 +0100, Peter Gerstbach <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yes, that's the problem with those tools. But since I'm thinking of
> > writing such a tool (which should make it better) I first have to
> > understand the problem with the existing ones! :)

>     It seems to me that this would be a very hard problem to solve.
> The structuring of code is arbitrary and varies from programmer to
> programmer and from task to task.  If your requirement is to build a
> tool that automatically decides what functions need to be clubbed
> together and what needs to be broken down into more modular chunks,
> your are almost(?) talking about AI. Or, alternatively, your code
> generator should be overridable by the programmer to specify
> modularity rules if the programmer is unhappy with the default output.

Well, that's not really a requirement of the code generator, more a 
wish. But maybe it is possible to solve parts of it. But this is an 
issue which applys to all WYSIWYG editors, they will never replace good 
programmers :)