Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] suggestions for gexace

[Andreas L. <no...@sb...>]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:44:59AM +0200, Eric Bezault wrote:
> Sven Ehrke wrote:
> > 
> > The drawback is that we would have to deliver
> > some non Eiffel stuff as part of gobo: the xsl libraries (xalan). So far it has been an optional addon which one
> > could use or not. If we would go the XSL way (and only that way) it becomes a mandatory part of GOBO.
> > I am not sure if this is acceptable or not.
> 
> I agree that having a --xml option would make 'gexace' more
> flexible, but I think that we should keep the --se, --ise,
> --hact and --ve options just for the reason you stated above:
> if people are happy with the Ace files generated by these
> 4 options and don't need more flexibility, they should not
> have to download and use Xalan. So I think that we should 
> keep the already existing options, and add the --xml option
> for advanced users.

Now I start seeing the light. Would mean, if we ever have our own XSLT tool, we can drop the "--hact, --ise, ..." part from gexace. That option makes the suggestion much more acceptable to me. It is kind of my way of thinking: if we don't archive the perfect solution right now, it's cool - but only as long as we make sure there is a way to "upgrade" to the perfect solution later (;

> PS: I know that I already asked this question and Alexander
> said that there is not need to reinvent the wheel, but is
> anybody interested in writing a XSLT tool in Eiffel using
> the Gobo XML library? I'm sure this would be an interesting
> project to work on.

I'd like to second that (;

Andreas
PS: I think we reached consensous. Sven I am looking forward to your contribution - if you still volunter for the task. The change to gexace should be trivial, the XSL part I don't know