I haven't looked at the XSLT code but I have a question in my mind that I need to answer about it.
I wonder what it is that is being generated and what were the design alternatives to the codegen implementation. One question that popped in to my head was: Is there 'missing polymorphism' here ? As I said, I only have the question at this time. On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 12:12, Glen Mazza wrote: > -1. I'd like to hold off on this, at least until I > can gain a better understanding of the autogenerated > code. I may still to the same conclusion as the other > committers, but Finn's endorsement of the XSLT--as > well as the long work of those like Keiron who have > worked with the XSLT files--suggests that there are > significant time benefits to using them. (At work, I > use "SQL to write SQL" all the time, and love the time > efficiencies that result.) > > If we check in the Java code, then changes may end up > being made to those files directly, which will result > in the XSLT files becoming unregeneratable. Or, every > run of the XSLT will require re-modification of the > changes made manually to all the Java > files--potentially dozens--100's of files. So I'm > kind of leery about doing this at the moment. > > [Actually, I'm looking forward to studying the XSLT > that generates these files--as I mentioned to Clay > that CVS and Ant were two of the initial benefits you > get by working on FOP, apparently being about to write > Java code using XSLT is a third one...i.e., Yeehaw!, > as I believe he had put it... ;)] > > Glen > > --- "J.Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Finn Bock wrote: > > > I like the generation process as it allowed me to > > try out and experiment > > > with different optimizations. I don't think that I > > realisticly could > > > have added caching of compound properties or > > changed the abs2rel/rel2abs > > > code if I had to change the Maker classes > > manually. > > > > If its common code, that's what class hierarchies > > and > > inheritance are made for. > > > > J.Pietschmann > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
