Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT In the Build Process? From: Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:30:51 +1000 |
Steve Ball wrote:Going further, when one combines XSLT with a dynamic, interpreted scripting language (Tcl, Python, Perl, etc) it is possible to not only use XSLT to generate code but to evaluate that code on-the-fly as part of the runtime application. One of my currently projects is a GUI XML editor that is implemented mostly as XSLT stylesheets, using Tcl/Tk as "glue" between the stylesheets and the UI.
For instance, while some developers love such a thing, other test engineers ask "How do you test such a thing?" If the answer comes back "with great difficulty", moving forward with an XML strategy suddenly gets a whole lot harder.
If the result of evaluating the generated code is predictable, ie. if the generated code is consistent, then it is absolutely subject to testing. You can always generate the tests too...
I don't think testing is a show-stopper, but circumstances may vary - I'd have to consider different cases.
Cheers, Steve Ball
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