xml-dev - RE: Can XSLT be bi-directional ? XML + XSLT -> XHTML -> XML + (XSLT)

["Ashvil" <ashvil@i3connect.net>]

 Abhishek Srivastava wrote
>
> If the output of a XSL Translation is an XML document..
> then another style
> sheet can be written that will transform the output
> document back to the
> source document.
>

I think this is the preferred solution that this group is leaning
towards. And it would resolve my current problem. However, I see an
issue with making two stylesheets, every time I want the users to edit
the XML data. More work, sigh !

I was thinking of an extended XSLT processor that would automatically
add  more information to the resultant tree (eg. Back pointers to the
original tree), so that it could apply the reverse transformation.
Something like this.

       Extended                          Extended
         XSLT                              XSLT
XML tree ---> XHTML tree ----> (Users edit ---> XML tree
              (with             data only       (with
               information      no tree          updated
               for reverse      manipulation     data)
               transformation)  is allowed)


I am still interested in what information would the extended XSLT need
to store for the reverse transformation to occur. I think this would
be important for a read-write web especially when languages like SVG
become popular.

Regards,
Ashvil






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