Re: [xsl] Most meaningful design documents for xslt?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Most meaningful design documents for xslt?
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:32:30 -0400
At 2007-04-16 17:12 -0500, Angela Williams wrote:
What design documents have you found to be the most useful for XSLT?

Flow charting and sequence diagrams don't seem to me to be very
practical...

Right ... flow implies mapping an imperative programming style while XSLT is primarily declarative with matching template rules.


I don't think I've ever tried to depict a stylesheet in diagram, so I couldn't suggest what you might be able to work backwards from.

What would your objective be in diagramming a declarative set of template matches on your source document? "Flow" is dictated by your input XML triggering your stylesheet templates. The only flow you really have are functions and called templates, which are called from inside template that are triggered by outside stimuli (the nodes from your source tree).

You characterized your question using the words "design documents" ... so are you speaking of before the act of writing the actual stylesheet code, or are you looking at somehow reflecting an existing stylesheet in a diagram?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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