Re: [xsl] Need a programmic way to read xslt file, and determine the mappings defined.

[Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bill,

I've done quite some conversions, bi-directional also, and I tend to agree that it would be a lot 
easier for you to place some kind of mapping in the center. If the logic can generate xslt, then it 
should be fairly easy to generate a mapping as well. Though it would make more sense to me if the 
logic would create a mapping first and some code generates an xslt out of it. One of the benefits is 
that a mapping could be presented in a customer-readable form. That is quite difficult with an XSLT...

Grtz,
Geert

> Hi
>
>
> > Workflow:
> > 	User runs logic to create xslt file, its serialized. 
> > 	Some time later the User re-selects the xslt file to be
> > analyzed. 
> > 	
> > 	Need to use the xslt file as an input.
>
>
> When you generate the stylesheet, could you also generate another file that contains the mappings and then analyze that instead of the actual stylesheet? If not, then annotate the stylesheet literal result elements (and xsl:element generated element nodes) with an identifier, as suggested by David.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jarno