> Le 7 déc. 04, à 18:54, Sylvain Wallez a écrit : > > ...(hearing Stefano coming behind me, ready to shout "FS!!!" in my > > ears...) > > Nahh...his detector exploded yesterday, don't worry. > > > ...Now going back to the annotated-HTML-to-XSL compiler that we > > (Anyware) wrote many years ago, it allows to mix both syntax, as > > attributes are simply translated to their XSLT equivalent, and you > > therefore can write plain XSLT in the HTML file (aargh! I > hear Stefano > > coming!) > > > > A similar approach could be used for the template language with a > > single engine, by simply converting on the fly > > directives-as-attributes to directives-as-elements...
Bertrand Delacretaz:
> Interesting - do you envision using XSLT for this conversion?
> Or doing
> it in java code?
At NZETC we have used a similar system to what Sylvain describes: We use XSLT
to convert attribute-driven HTML to XSLT. The XSLT is attached (3.5kb).
It performs text substitution both in attribute values e.g. <p
class="{foo/bar}"> and also in the text content e.g. <p>Blah blah: {foo/bar}</p>
It supports attributes for-each, if, apply-templates, and copy-of. e.g. <li
nzetc:for-each="foo/bar">{.}</li>
Obviously the same thing could be easily done with JXT as the target language
rather than XSLT. To my mind, this could be a good thing: the JXT 2 language
could have a single (element-driven) syntax for everything, and we could use
XSLT to convert from this attribute-driven syntax, or indeed from any other
attribute-driven syntax that people wanted, if they felt a need for another
attribute (is that FS?)
Cheers
Con
html-to-xslt.xsl
Description: html-to-xslt.xsl
