[xsl] Re: xsl-list Digest 10 Sep 2004 05:10:00 -0000 Issue 173

[Sundar Narasimhan <sundar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Michael: Thanks much for your response.
Could you provide a brief description of what you have done in Saxon-SA?
Thanks.

> There are tools that get you started in writing a stylesheet starting from a
> schema, but that's only a small part of the answer. It's very much part of
> the strategy for XSLT 2.0 that the language is schema-aware: for example,
> you can write template rules that apply to all members of a substitution
> group, or all elements that have a particular type, and thus help to make
> your stylesheet resilient against schema changes.
>
> Presumably an IDE that knows about the schema and the stylesheet will then
> be able to offer a "rename" operation that applies the change across the
> board.
>
> Some of the potential benefits of XSLT integration with XML Schema have
> still to be proven but the intent is there. What I've done so far in
> Saxon-SA is really only a small start, but I'm already finding that many
> errors in stylesheets are diagnosed more quickly and more accurately. 
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/