[xsl] XSLT In the Build Process?

[Mitch Amiano <mitch.amiano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've observed a team of developers using XSLT as a build tool to generate C++ code, instead of using the UML tool that had been selected for them (Rhapsody). They modelled various aspects of the problem domain using XML, and used XSLT templates to pump out C++.

Reasons for their decision to go down this path included the precise control they could exercise over the code generation framework and hence the generated code, the ease of revising the XML inputs and XSLT templates, and the seamless fit with their Unix based ClearCase configuration management and "make" based build scripts.

How common is this approach? Anyone else have experience long-term applying a similar approach?

- Mitch 


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