Re: generating attributes and content for an element

Ah, and if I could wish for a X-Mas present it would be that libxslt would
learn to speak XSLT 2.0... (I know, I won't hold my breath, lol).

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Michael Ludwig <[email protected]> wrote:

> Manuel Souto Pico schrieb:
> > I don't know a lot about XSL(T) but from the little I know it seems
> > that it is used when you need to give a human-friendly shape to an XML
> > document (e.g. roughly, show the XML contents as if it was a webpage
> > in a navigator).
>
> It may, of course, be used in this case. In fact, it should be preferred
> to other technologies by a lot.
>
> > However, the conversion that I need to do is from XML to another
> > XML-based format
>
> Exactly the use case for XSLT.
>
> > So do you still think XSLT would be the right thing for me?
>
> Absolutely. If you want to do serious XML work, forget about
> XML::Simple. Use the real tools. Use XSLT.
>
> XSLT comes in two versions: 1.0 and, significantly enhanced, 2.0.
> The latter is much more powerful.
>
> For Perl, you'll want to use XML::LibXSLT, which is built on top of
> Daniel Veillards LibXSLT. But then, you probably won't need Perl.
> (I know I shouldn't say that here.)
>
> On Windows, you already have MSXML.
>
> You can also use one of the three free XSLT 2.0 processors currently
> available:
>
> * Saxon (Java, .NET)
> * Altova (Windows only)
> * Gestalt
>
> Then, join XSL-List, rightly famed for its helpfulness, promptness,
> and competence:
>
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/
>
> Michael Ludwig
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