Re: [xsl] How do you avoid relearning the same coding technique over and over?

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In order to be able to quickly find XSLT code that ought to be on my disk, I once tried to index all .xsl files with BaseX. It ran into the problem that a database cannot hold more than 255 namespaces. The issue that I filed [1] will turn 11 next month.

Gerrit

[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/902

On 06.02.2025 13:19, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> A few days ago, I needed some code to iterate over a set of folders and then for each folder iterate over its files.
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> Over the years I have solved that problem--use the expath file module--many times. In my most recent need, I spent a few minutes searching my file system to find an XSLT program that uses the expath module, but I didn't find anything, so I spent time relearning how to use the expath file module. What a waste of time.
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> In the ideal world, when I develop some code--such as code to iterate over folders and subfolders--I would pause what I'm doing, create example code showing how to solve the task, and store that example code in some location on my file system that I'll remember 6 months, 6 years later. Alas, I'm in a hurry. I don't do that.
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> What's the solution? Discipline? No matter how much I'm in a hurry, stop and create an example. Is that the solution?
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> How do you avoid relearning the same coding technique over and over?
>
> /Roger

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