----- Original Message -----
From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Turbine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Torque, Newtorque & XSL
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:15:06 +0200, Turbine wrote:
>
> >>I am not too familiar with the way torque works so forgive me if I am
> >asking
> >>something stupid.
> >>My question is:
> >>Is there any particular reason not to use XSLT to get SQL, DBMap etc.
from
> >>XML instead of templates/java code? That seems to be cleaner.
> >
> >I looked at it, but I needed something that could do some string
> >manipulation. Table Names like my_table should become MyTable for java
> >code.
>
> AFAIK XSL can do string manipulation just fine.
No, XSL's string functions are not nearly powerful enough for some of the
things we want to do. We use XSL for a LOT of stuff, and seriously
considered it in this case, but it really is simpler with templates.
Frank
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