RE: [xsl] stylesheet organisation

["Merrilees, David" <David.Merrilees@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I work for Tesco.com. We make extensive use of XSLT on all our websites, some
of them are extremely large projects.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: graydon@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:graydon@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 September 2011 19:19
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] stylesheet organisation

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 04:49:36PM +0100, Andrew Welch scripsit:
> Thanks for your post, just to query one part:
> > And having multiple smaller files helps collaboration
>
> Why do you think mutiple smaller files helps collaboration?

Because that way you have have one small file locked by programmer A in the
version control system and another small file locked by programmer B in the
version control system.

XSLT is not all that good at being used in large, multi-programmer projects;
there's little-to-no automerge support for version control, and various
processors throw warnings at you if you have a file included in more than one
place (as you want to do if you're defining a bunch of utility functions in a
big mass of XSLT code.)  But having things being broken out into smaller files
on some logical grounds -- semantic groupings of target elements, say --
certainly helps.

-- Graydon


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