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Re: Re: [equinox-dev] Incubator commit rights for Kim Horne
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- From: "Alex Blewitt" <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:04:37 +0100
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On 25/10/06, BJ Hargrave <hargrave@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But I find the use of XSLT to be stomach turning. XSLT programming is not
easy. I support Peter's thoughts on having a programmatic way of
transforming metadata.
I think XSLT is *exactly* the kind of thing to use here. XPath is an
incredibly flexible way of being able to filter and transpose XML
documents, and is definitely the right choice.
A dumb programmatic API might be able to generate simple XPath
expressions for those that prefer writing in code, but don't turn a
great solution into a weak one just so that it can be written in a way
unsuited to the task.
Alex.