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** Reply to message from Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@zveno.com> on Wed, 30 Oct 2002
06:48:46 +1100
Another solution would be to use a literate programming tool, like xmLP
(http://www.xmLP.org/), which keeps the documentation with the XSLT, but
nonetheless outside of the code. Zarella Rendon gave a talk about this at this
year's Extreme.
Cheers,
Tony.
> > We've discussed documentation work-arounds in XSLT 1.0 on and off for
> > years -- make the documentation elements extension elements and
> > include an empty xsl:fallback; run the stylesheet through a
> > de-documentation-izer before using it; use XML comments with XML
> > inside that you get out via disable-output-escaping.
> >
> > None of these is exactly ideal.
>
> As part of that discussion, one suggestion I made (which
> seemed to get lost in the noise...) was to extend the
> whitespace stripping mechanism instead of introducing
> a specific documentation element. That is, as well as
> stripping whitespace from a stylesheet the processor
> could be told to also strip elements in certain
> namespaces as well. That way, documentation could be
> made to disappear from the stylesheet before execution
> begins. Since this is a general mechanism, stylesheet
> designers made find it useful for other purposes too.
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Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect
mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net
MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
http://www.mddl.org/
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