Re: Using ECS to generate an XSLT?

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:09 -0700, Lauren Bish wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 1:23 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:43 -0700, Lauren Bish wrote:

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> >> Any examples/suggestions?
> >
> > there was some experimental code from way back that generates ECS
> > syntax's from schema's and DTD's. if you do want to create an ECS
> > grammar for XSLT that might speed things up a bit. alternatively, you
> > could investigate more modern generators (for example JaxMe or
> > XmlBeans).
> 
> Thanks, but I am not looking for a data binding framework (unless I  
> am not understanding how these would be used to generate XSL)

(sounds like your plan is a good match to your problem so this is just a
FYI)

binding the XSLT specification gives you a way to generate XSL
documents. the old, experimental code generated ECS bound to a schema or
DTD in a similar fashion. 

>  - I  just need to output XSL specific elements - even a subset would do  
> for now. Except for having to deal with HTML output (which is not a  
> requirement for my adapter - I output XML), I don't think it would be  
> too hard for me to extend the ECS to construct XSL in the same way  
> someone created the HTML output classes, but I wanted to make sure I  
> wasn't reinventing the wheel or there wasn't some other reason this  
> wasn't done (besides the problem of getting HTML output to work -  
> which would seem to require mixing of HTML inside XSL, and XSL inside  
> of HTML).

i can't think of any reason why this hasn't been done and i agree that
it shouldn't be too hard to do. so hope this answers your question :)

- robert