Subject: Re: [xsl] How to cope with the complexity of an XSLT program with thousands of template rules? From: "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 15:11:23 -0000 |
> That solved the problem and avoided problematic template interactions, but it made me feel defeated because I resorted to a linear way of solving the problem. > Pipelines are a great way to reduce complexity - doing multiple passes over the data, each pass doing one well-defined thing, is a great way to keep things simple. That's after all the great strength of the bag-of-tricks in UNIX - compose complex tasks as a pipeline of simple tasks. It also gives you a lot of reuse potential: the same modules can be reused in different pipelines. If you ever see a stylesheet that's complex because it's trying to handle multiple variants of input formats, or to produce multiple variants of output formats, that's a code smell: the input variety or output variety should have been handled through preprocessing or postprocessing transformations in a pipeline. Michael Kay Saxonica
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