Re: [xsl] XPath 2.0 Best Practice: wrap the first node of every path expression within schema-element?

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/03/2008, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Of course a system might raise all kinds of warnings and/or coding hints
>  to that are not mandated by the specification, but the primary role of
>  an XSLT system is surely to implement the spec, not to offer general
>  programming help over and above what the language specifies.

XSLT IDEs already provide basic intellisense given an input document,
but that could be so much better given a schema.

Imagine a nice red underline below an incorrect XPath, or
control-spacing your way down from the root.  Or perhaps renaming an
element in the schema and having it renamed throughout your stylesheet
(and beyond that - renaming it in an XPath and it being changed
throughout).

Writing XPaths should be a case of "slash, ctrl->space, enter, slash,
ctrl->space, enter" :)

Equally, doing something like <head/> in a schema aware transform to
XHTML should result in a nice underline, with the option to
auto-complete all required elements (meta and title iirc)


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