Subject: Re: [xsl] questions about XSLT philosophy: how much is too much? From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:35:03 +0000 |
Mike, >> Some other things can be done, but will always be a little >> difficult. Then again, there are things that XSLT will never do >> well. Yesterday's thread about converting Cobol (or maybe Cobol >> Data) to XML probably goes in that category. > > Though with the regular expression handling in XSLT 2.0, you can > make a reasonable stab at it. It would still be pretty hard, though, given that there's no support for matching nested structures. You can use the regular expression support to tokenise a string (such as a Cobol program) but getting from there to a parse tree is not straight forward (and <xsl:for-each-group> won't help). Or have I missed something? Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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