Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT In the Build Process? From: Mitch Amiano <mitch.amiano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:08:12 -0400 |
[Mitch Amiano]
However, I've found it is still difficult to get developers to understand the semantics - this being perhaps the most difficult part of transitioning and getting such a tool adopted by others - and moreso if the XML encodes just a characterization of the domain. If it attempts to be a programming language, it seems to be easier to get programmers to adopt it, but conversely less useful as a code factoring tool.
Right, for myself, maybe I have been doing markup and transformation too long, but for a lot of tasks I have to do, I automatically look to see how I can easily define things like where to insert one data chunk into another, or how to define customization differences, or where I can result some existing data. Once I am clear on that, I look to see what is the simplest xml driver file I can concoct that captures those descriptions, then use that as input to an xslt transformation (or a series of them). If things are simple enough, the xslt may not even need any driver file.
Earlier, I would have thought in terms of the steps I needed to take to get the result. I think that this evolution is very similar to the progression from process-centric to data-centric view which been going on for a decade or two. For many (most?) business-type tasks the main work can be seen as transforming data from one form to another. Data tends to be much more persistent than the procedures that created it, and in those situations, data-centric is very valuable.
Have you seen Cleaveland's book "Program Generators with XML and Java" (Prentice Hall PTR)?
Cheers,
Tom P
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