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

["Paul Tyson phtyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  On Feb 6, 2025, at 12:25, Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx
  <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

  o;?I wonder how we might mix (XML) metadata | documentationwith the
  XSLT of a stylesheet. Now has that been done before?
  ;-)

Dunno, but I would write GRDDL transform to put everything of interest
from xsl stylesheets into RDF, and query with SPARQL.
Best,bPaul

  regards
  On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 18:16, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@lists.
  mulberrytech.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 12:19 +0000, Roger L Costello
    costello@xxxxxxxxx
    wrote:
    >
    > What's the solution? Discipline? No matter how much I'm in a
    hurry,
    > stop and create an example. Is that the solution?

    Well,

    locate .xsl | grep $HOME | xargs grel -l expath

    will go a long way for me (Linux). Or,
    find . -name "*.xsl*" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l expath
    if there might be spaces in filenames.

    Often, though, i remember a particular occasion, a particular
    transformation. If not, i go looking at the spec. If i canbt
    puzzle it
    out from the spec i go looking for examples.

    Asking an unreliable source such as chatgpt can be worse than a
    waste
    of time, as it might plant ideas that lead to wrong underlying
    assumptions that can be difficult to work past.

    As Wendell out-pointed, you have to think about the bigger
    picture. An
    example will just show you how to do one thing but not tell you
    the
    best approach.

    For example, if youbre using saxon, you can use collection() or
    uri-
    collection() with try/catch to run XSLT over every file in a
    directory,
    optionally recursively descending into subdirs (nested folders),
    and
    not falling over if therebs malformed XML in there. In that
    case you
    can use the doc() function.

    Debbie Lapeyre and i once watched the late Michael
    Sperberg-McQueen
    writing in a notepad. Asked what he was doing, he said he was
    working
    on a list of things to think about.

    Problem solving is a case of working out the right questions to
    think
    about.

    liam

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