Re: [xsl] Rexsel — A simpler way of writing XSLT

["Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/06/2024 14:22, Hugh Field-Richards hsfr@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Clearly I should have done some more homework on this, sighb&
>
> The thing that prompted me to design Rexsel was all the
> years spent on using OmniMark, then crossing over to XSLT,
> and then needing to bpretty-printb some XSLT to make it a
> bit more readable.

I'm speaking in ignorance of other editors here, as I've been using 
Emacs with xslide-mode for two decades, and it both colourises and 
indents XSLT pretty well, as well as the usual auto-complete. I had 
always assumed other editors did much the same.

> But I take the point that once you get your head round the
> XSLT syntax it is not a problem,

The problem is not [us] XML-heads: most of us have pointy brackets 
growing out of our ears. The target is programmers of languages which 
use nested indented curly-brace syntax where everything is an argument 
to everything else and where you begin by declaring your entire program 
to be null and void, who expect all other languages to be the same. For 
that demographic, both XMQ and REXSEL may be useful tools.

Alternate syntaxes are always being invented, both as programming 
languages and as markup languages. They keep us looking young and 
beautiful. The only one I have personally found to be of use in recent 
years has been Relax NG compact syntax, simply because life is too short 
to use W3C Schemas.

Peter