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Re: Use of XSLT in "template driven code generation"
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Use of XSLT in "template driven code generation"
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:22:18 -0700
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At 15:59 11-10-2001, Soumen Sarkar wrote:
>This post is to point out a relatively unknown use of XSLT.
Cool, but not quite unknown. From May 2000 to January 2001, I worked for
the now-defunct Lexica LLC, where we generated some fairly complex
JavaScript for client-side form validation based on an XML description of
the data space, via XSLT. The original architecture was developed by Alex
Milowski, so it was of course theoretically pure and abstract, and somewhat
baroque. (-: But it worked quite well (until the company got the plug
pulled, but that's an entirely other story).
I still think there's a market for that kind of abstraction of a business
model, but I have a feeling that legal entanglements would prevent me from
developing them now. )-:
I'm also quite sure that Lexica was not the only group around doing
this. In fact, some of the code for the XSL formatter FOP is generated at
compile time from XML-based declarations.
-Chris
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