Re: [xsl] is XPath 3.1 xml-to-json() function useful

["Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for the exceptional XSLT average developer !

Le 13/03/2019 C  21:28, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a C)critB :
> Hi Mukul,
>
> I agree provisionally, however I would also recast your claim a
> little: I think good tools (like oXygen in this case) do make it
> possible to be much more ambitious with XSLT, if only because they
> make it possible to visualize, represent and manage more complex
> processes, such (in this case for example) as 2-stage or multi-stage
> pipelines producing specialized serialization formats including JSON.
>
> But that sounds hard to disagree with doesn't it? Aren't we saying
> that good tools make difficult things easier, if you know how to use
> them? I do wonder who you have in mind when you talk about the
> "average developer" as mostly, she or he would not be writing XSLT,
> would they? The average XSLT developer is already exceptional. :-)
>
> Cheers, Wendell
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:16 AM Mukul Gandhi gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:33 AM Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Lets say, we've a following input XML document,
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <root>
> > >     <val>1</val>
> > >     <val>2</val>
> > >     <val>3</val>
> > >     <val>4</val>
> > > </root>
> > >
> > > I would want to transform above XML document to following JSON,
> > >
> > > {
> > >      "root": {
> > >          "val": [
> > >              1,
> > >              2,
> > >              3,
> > >              4
> > >          ]
> > >      }
> > > }
> >
> > For the interest of readers, I actually got above XML to JSON conversion done using <oXygen/> XML editor, and then we (actually Martin) solved this with XSLT 3.0. As a best practice to convert XML into JSON using XSLT 3.0, I think its a good idea to get a feel of the suitable JSON document for a XML document, using tool like <oXygen/> XML, and then automate this with a XSLT 3.0 & XPath 3.1 solution.
> >
> > Without support of a tool like <oXygen/> XML, I think it'll be harder for an average developer using XSLT 3.0 to produce XML to JSON conversions.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mukul Gandhi
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