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The Doormouse
I have been searching for an XLST processor that is novice-friendly, and
came up with a really weird idea.
Here's my (possibly insane) idea:
What if there was an XLS processor that simply performed "find and
replace" on a grand scale? There would be no processor directives. There
would be no logical branching or DTDs or Schema or any of that - just a
list of tags and what they are suppossed to mean in real code (or
whatever the output should be). It would be the ultimate in user-
friendliness because it would be so easily used.
For example, my XML code would be:
<mytag>Content blah blah blah</mytag>
(No directives, declarations, nothing - just the tags)
My fake XSL code would be:
mytag
{
HTML/code/whatever
}
*and*
/mytag
{
HTML/code/whatever
}
My fake XLST processor would (of course) just spit out content direct.
I could use this fake stuff to build real XML and XSL files - and that's
scary. There would be no geeky learning curve. A ten-year-old could learn
it in minutes. All the standards/validating/etc is just thrown out the
window ...
I wonder if anyone would use it but me? Maybe it's already been written?
The Doormouse (The giggling insane?)
came up with a really weird idea.
Here's my (possibly insane) idea:
What if there was an XLS processor that simply performed "find and
replace" on a grand scale? There would be no processor directives. There
would be no logical branching or DTDs or Schema or any of that - just a
list of tags and what they are suppossed to mean in real code (or
whatever the output should be). It would be the ultimate in user-
friendliness because it would be so easily used.
For example, my XML code would be:
<mytag>Content blah blah blah</mytag>
(No directives, declarations, nothing - just the tags)
My fake XSL code would be:
mytag
{
HTML/code/whatever
}
*and*
/mytag
{
HTML/code/whatever
}
My fake XLST processor would (of course) just spit out content direct.
I could use this fake stuff to build real XML and XSL files - and that's
scary. There would be no geeky learning curve. A ten-year-old could learn
it in minutes. All the standards/validating/etc is just thrown out the
window ...
I wonder if anyone would use it but me? Maybe it's already been written?
The Doormouse (The giggling insane?)