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Re: (xslide) Hey there.

[xslide S. <xsl...@me...>]

At 15 May 2003 13:54 -0700, Shawn O. McKenzie wrote:
 > Not sure if anyone is on this list yet, but I thought I'd get the party 
 > going. =)

Just us two at present.

 > I spend much of my time in xslide, and it is pretty fantastic.  My 

Thank you.

 > recent project has over 5000 lines of XSLT and xslide has really helped.

...
 > I am very familiar with DocBook and psgml-mode. One thing that would be 
 > nice in xslide is the ability to tag whole regions. It would, for 

Please submit a feature request on the SourceForge site.

 > instance, be nice to be able to highlight a large section of XSLT and 
 > wrap that section with an if conditional. Another thing that might be 

I want the function that turns

   <xsl:if>
     ...
   </xsl:if>

into

   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when>
       ...
     </xsl:when>
     <xsl:otherwise></xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>

but I've yet to implement it.

 > nice is if it could validate the code, and only allow you to insert xsl 
 > tags in the right place.. for instance it would only allow you to insert 
 > a sort after a for-each or apply-templates.  But I could see how this 
 > might be impossible because you could have html tags all over the place 
 > that would break validation...

If you assume XML-style validation.  I have contemplated using the
Semantic Bovinator to implement better parsing than the current
font-lock pattern matching.  That also leads towards using Speedbar
for a structural view of the stylesheet.

Another idea is adding font-lock keywords for HTML and/or adding the
ability for adding custom tag sets to the font-lock patterns.

 > Anyhow. It is fantastic, and I'm sure I'm not using it to its potential.

Hopefully one day xslide will reach its full potential.  Right now it
barely warrants the 'ide' part of its name.

Regards,


Tony Graham

(xslide) Hey there.

[Shawn O. M. <smc...@bo...>]

Not sure if anyone is on this list yet, but I thought I'd get the party 
going. =)

I spend much of my time in xslide, and it is pretty fantastic.  My 
recent project has over 5000 lines of XSLT and xslide has really helped.

I've looked at the .el files briefly, but don't really see what is going 
on at first glance. So, I'm not sure if the following suggestions are 
feasible or if they are already there and I just don't know how to use them.

I am very familiar with DocBook and psgml-mode. One thing that would be 
nice in xslide is the ability to tag whole regions. It would, for 
instance, be nice to be able to highlight a large section of XSLT and 
wrap that section with an if conditional. Another thing that might be 
nice is if it could validate the code, and only allow you to insert xsl 
tags in the right place.. for instance it would only allow you to insert 
a sort after a for-each or apply-templates.  But I could see how this 
might be impossible because you could have html tags all over the place 
that would break validation...

Anyhow. It is fantastic, and I'm sure I'm not using it to its potential.

(xslide) Welcome to xslide-list@lists.sourceforge.net

[xslide S. <xsl...@me...>]

Since there has been a recent increase in interest in using and
improving xslide (and since I now use SourceForge for the xmlroff and
PangoPDF projects), I am belatedly starting a mailing list specific to
the xslide XSL mode for Emacs.

No, the world doesn't really need another mailing list, but nor does
any other mailing list need traffic about xslide.  Having a mailing
list for xslide hopefully pleases those people interested in xslide
without annoying those uninterested in xslide.

Regards,


Tony Graham.