On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:25:49PM +0200, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
<snip interesting stuff>
> IMHO, the template language which is closer to the optimum is XSLT but
> only with one change:
...
> then we can have the following templatesheet:
>
> namespace ("ns") {
> "http://whatever";
> }
>
> template ("/") {
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>{list/@name}</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form action="{flow::continuation/id}">
> <table>
> attribute ("width") {
> if ({deli:screen-width}) {
> {deli:screen-width}
> } else {
> "100%"
> }
> }
> apply-templates
> </table>
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> }
>
> template ("item") {
> <tr>
> <td>
> if ({ns:subitem}) {
> if ({count(ns:subitem}) > 1) {
> for-each ({ns:subitem}) {
> <span style="color:green">{.}</span>
> }
> } else {
> <span style="color:red">{.}</span>
> }
> } else if ({request::lang} == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> || {request:://cookie/lang} == [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {
> {.}
> } else {
> "unknown language \"" [EMAIL PROTECTED] "\""
> }
> </td>
> </tr>
> }
It sounds odd, but I think XQuery could be a good language for generating
XML in this way. It's pretty close to what you've written here.
http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2002/12/23/xquery.html
Pity about losing the declarative processing model.
There's also JSL ("Jelly Stylesheet Language" I presume), which does the
job pretty well in Maven.
--Jeff
>
> Stefano.
>
