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Subject: Re: [xsl] Specification of a transform. From: "Tony Graham" <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:13:32 +0100 (IST) |
On Wed, September 11, 2013 6:57 am, davep wrote: > On 10/09/13 22:05, Tommie Usdin wrote: >> In 2007 Wendell Piez and I wrote a conference paper on this topic. >> "Separating Mapping from Coding in Transformation Tasks". ... > Which raises the issue, if a non XSLT programmer is specifying, > how might he/she do it, without those XSLT skills? >From http://www.mulberrytech.com/papers/MappingTransformations/slide009.html: * Understand both source and target data * Ability to articulate complex relationships - clear to programmer - clear to content-owner * Strong analytical skills * XSLT expertise is not required! A subject matter expert who groks XML structures can be better for this than a programmer who groks XSLT but not the data. With this technique, if you pre-think exactly how it will look in XSLT in the mapping, you're doing everybody a disservice since the stakeholders may not be able to follow too much XSLTese, the coders might not engage their brains sufficiently and so flounder where you've left a gap (yet if they do engage fully and write it their own way, your pseudo-XSLT mapping is then a dead end), and the QAers won't have something they can really work with. Regards, Tony Graham tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx Consultant http://www.mentea.net Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- XML, XSL-FO and XSLT consulting, training and programming Chair, Print and Page Layout Community Group @ W3C
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