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   RE: [xml-dev] Schema, BNF and parsing

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At 02:21 PM 3/4/2005, Michael Kay wrote:
> > My real "beef" is the 2666 line script. It has numerous
> > redundancies (i.e. duplicate code) and looks like a nightmare
> > to maintain.
>
>
>It's a common problem. I once reduced a 2000-line stylesheet to 20 lines
>plus some data tables. There are lots of people who learn how to write
>concrete XSLT code without learning how to write it generically at a higher
>level of abstraction. The same is probably true of most languages.

At least you're giving me some hope here - as it stands it is 
unmaintainable...do you consult ? :-)


>Michael Kay
>http://www.saxonica.com/

Andrew Jeavons






 

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