[Jscheme-user] Re: Martin Fowler moving to Ruby from XSLT

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

I have found that programming languages that are also XML are pretty hard to use.  waterlang.org is a possible exception, though its not XML either.

The Ruby reflection approach is nice, you could do the same thing in Java, with a bit more work.  However, you could also just have a table of tag -> transformer and simply walk the xml object applying the transformations.

What Rusty and i do is transform xml into sexpressions,  (see dclass/SAXexp.scm) manipulate the sexpression and transform back to xml.  We just pass the sexp to a transformer and let it side effect it because we're generally adding structure, though a functional approach should work too.

k
At 11:15 AM 9/23/2003 -0400, Geoffrey Knauth wrote:
>(from Martin Fowler's BLOG)
>
>http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MovingAwayFromXslt.html
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>Geoffrey
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>Geoffrey S. Knauth | http://knauth.org/gsk