Re: [Xmlstar-devel] enhanced_select branch

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

André Kaplan <ak...@la...> writes:

>>
>> Is it worth adding all these options? Your example shell commands look
>> like XSL with shorter tags (<tagname></tagname> becomes --tagname or
>> -t).
>
> Well that's what I wanted to discuss about!
> I think some switches are definitely worth adding: var, key, choose/ 
> when/otherwise, import, include.
> Some are less worth it and as you say could be added with extra  
> switches or extended --elem and --attr (say --xelem and --xattr) which  
> would write xslt elements.
>
> Some switches could be shortcuts to longer xslt constructs (like  
> currently --template, --match): function and/or function call switches.
>
> In the end the command line will look like an XSLT stylesheet but less  
> verbose and hopefully human-readable.
> But I also see xmlstarlet as a command-line xslt stylesheet designer.
>

Hmm, well I see it more as a little tool for when you have just a small
XML manipulation task that isn't worth the bother of writing a
stylesheet: little one-liners. It would be interesting to hear others
people's opinion on this.

If we do go in the "less verbose stylesheet direction", I think there
should be some kind of syntax defined instead of using options for
everything. I don't find the dashes very pretty, and single letter
options aren't all that human-readable.


> I think that my mail client breaks lines longer than 70 characters.
> I added the contrib/xml_struct.sh script in the enhanced_select branch.
> Hopefully you'll be able to use it.

Yup that fixed it.

Noam