Hello Thomas, hm... sounds good as architecture, but doesn't this make it more complex than necessary?What I envision is that the xsl templates could be shipped with the sdk framework and sit there to be invoked only when the developer puts xml files into a given folder....
Christian thron7 wrote: > Hi all, > > Christian Boulanger wrote: > >> I had proposed compiler options like this: >> >> --xslt-use-stylesheet=/path/to/stylesheet.xsl \ >> --xslt-output-dir=/path/to/source/class \ >> --xslt-use-template-dir=/path/to/dir/containing/xml/templates,\ >> /path/to/dir/containing/more/xm/templates >> >> and some attribute in the top-level widget node that indicates where the >> generated javascript class code is to be put. The generated code is then >> optimized and "compiled" with the rest of the source code. >> > For the benefit of clean interfaces, there might be a better way. The > generator of qooxdoo is already doing too many (divergent) things, IMHO. > Having a separate migrator is probably proof for that. Rather than > integrating on the generator level, pushing even more functionality into > it, you could integrate *on top of it*. In the case of the XSLT code > generation, that is a distinct and self-contained step *before* any of > the classical qooxdoo tools kick in, and has also a distinct interface > to the later steps: the file system. > > So why not have a separate QxTransformer environment and build system, > alongside to standard qooxdoo, and *above both* e.g. a make file that > drives the XSLT tranformation first, generating qooxdoo code into a > skeleton-like environment, and then invokes the skeleton make file to > generate the qooxdoo application. That would be a natural integration to > me. Bottom line: Rather than making QxTransformer a part of qooxdoo, > make qooxdoo a part QxTransformer (that's actually what it is). > > Whether this top-level make file could be sufficiently generalized and > should be maintained as part of the qooxdoo source tree remains open, > but I don't quite see that at the moment. > > =Thomas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
