Picky point: the Theme stage does not produce HTML; it produces XHTML. So we really are transforming one XML dialect to another. It's just that the output dialect has (by design) the nice property that it has an agreed-upon meaning to web browsers and can be rendered in a standardized way as pages.
I think we would get a lot more comprehensibility if we just split up the huuuuge structural.xsl into a collection of modules, concerned with various bits of the UI, and added a lot of commentary and perhaps a user's guide. Having done that, we might more clearly see how to further refine the collection. A good sharp look at the code might indeed suggest that page types could be pulled out. But I'd like to plead with the community to design first and *then* execute, rather than assume that all who have gone before us know more about our task than we do and simply copy what they have done. There may be some tendency to confuse templating in the XSL sense and templating in the web-page sense. I don't think they are interchangeable. Let's see what we get from the current logical organization and whether it's worth keeping, however we rearrange it physically. There's already some modularity: the metadata Handlers pull out quite a bit of stuff that one doesn't often need to examine and would not wish to wade past. That said, I'll add my voice to those who say that the current code is difficult to understand and might be made less so. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_
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