Re: [xsl] XSLT in UML

[Insane User <com.intel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Manuel,

Have you considered the use of "Activity Diagrams"? 

Activity Diagrams are as close to flow charting, or process control in UML as one can get.

Regards,
topdog

>From: Manuel Baehnisch <s716631@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Mon Nov 28 16:52:33 CST 2005
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [xsl] XSLT in UML

>Are there any current efforts or already drafts on the issue of
>describing XSLT-templates in a UML-like language? For my thesis I
>would like to explain some of the more complex templates using
>diagrams. But as it seems there is nothing like UML for the
>declarative paradigm, is it?
>
>My inital thought was to use something like a flow-chart as it is used
>in procedural languages. Knowing that the diagrams would suggest a
>linear execution even though its unknown in which order the
>processor calls the templates it seemed like the best approach to me.
>
>Any better ideas? Otherwise I would have to "invent" something myself.
>Manuel Baehnisch