Re: Using ECS to generate an XSLT?

On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:48 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote:

>
> (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.

Okay. I thought that was maybe the way you were going (if I  
understand what you are saying correctly - generate code from the  
w3.org XSL spec). I was just looking at the spec and thinking that -  
but I think it is a bit beyond me to do that at this point - I  
vaguely grok XML/XSL/etc., much less language grammars not being a  
CompSci person (I am just a lowly Code Monkey).

Anyway, it just occurred to me that my XSL is so simple and mostly  
static, that I can use another XSLT to generate it from the XML  
config file. I only need to be able to change two small portions of  
it; one element needs it's name changeable, and one set of elements/ 
transforms need to be added for each element in the config file. The  
transforms are the same for each element so I can just do a for-each  
on each one. I am sure there is a yet more elegant way to do it, but  
this will work well enough and it won't be reused except by the  
customer.

Thanks