Re: XSLT Inferencing

["Oren Ben-Kiki" <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Given an arbitrary, valid XML document,
>is it at all reasonable to use XSLT to
>analyse the document and make a fair
>guess at which elements are containers,
>which are atomic etc?


I don't think XSLT is the right tool for this. You are better of using a SAX
parser in combination with some conventional programming language for
collecting and analyzing the data - Java, Perl, and Python come to mind (in
no particular order :-)

Have fun,
    Oren Ben-Kiki


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