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Re: xsl/xslt coding standard
Mike Brown wrote:
> I add frequent comments to explain why I'm doing whatever I'm doing.
At an XSLT Q&A in Oxford recently, someone asked about adding comments
to stylesheets, and it made me think of the discussions we had ages
ago about the different ways of embedding *structured* comments in
a stylesheet. We talked then about using extension elements, but it's
a real pain because you have to have xsl:fallback in each of them to
stop processors getting worried.
One possibility that came to mind, though, was being able to specify
one or more documentation-element namespaces for adding documentation
to the stylesheet. So something like:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
documentation-element-prefixes="html">
<html:p>Here's some documentation of my stylesheet</html:p>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html:p>And I can use it within templates too!</html:p>
...
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
What do y'all think?
Cheers,
Jeni
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/
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