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- From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@netfolder.com>
- To: "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:26:24 -0500
Hi,
After two hours of cross-country skiing and getting back to Didier's lab to
Work on the DSSSL-2 scope of work. I started daydreaming about XSTL,
multiple groves path access, Onimark, procedural vs rule based systems,
etc...
These funny constructs emerged:
<xsl:template match="booklist/item">
<!cdata[
(make display-group
(make box
(literal "Is this weirdo??")
(make rule)
(make paragraph)
)
)
]]>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:template>
or this one
node "Booklist" 'this is an XPath expression matched to the <booklist>
element node
output "<html>" & _
"<body>"
access_database()
output "</body>" & _
"</html>
end node
sub access_database()
Set db = getobject("ADODB.Connection")
db.Open "Yop", "yop", "yop"
set Items = db.Execute("select * from item")
do while not Items.EOF
output "<title>" & Items("title") & </title>"
output "<author> & Items("author") & </author>"
Loop
end sub
or even better, this one:
node "Booklist" 'this is an XPath expression matched to the <booklist>
element node
<html>
<body>
access_database
</body>
</html>
end node
sub access_database()
Set db = getobject("ADODB.Connection")
db.Open "Yop", "yop", "yop"
set Items = db.Execute("select * from item")
do while not Items.EOF
<title>Items("title")</title>
<author>Items("author")</author>
Loop
end sub
I particularly like the last one because it merges the procedural world and
the rule based world. It also keeps the template kind of constructs without
the ugly <% %> as found in ASP or JSP. You can as well imagine the same
constructs with a Java syntax, a Javascript syntax, a Perl syntax, a tcl
syntax or a Python syntax. Let's hope now that priests won't burn me for
heresy :-))
Cheers
Didier PH Martin
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