RE: Formatting elements

[DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk]

Jeni Tennison


> I think it's a very interesting issue how much XML structures 
> *do* have an
> effect on what is possible/easy/difficult/impossible to do 
> using XSLT.  I
> used to think that as long as the information was there, then 
> it would be
> possible to do anything with it in XSLT, but in fact it is 
> very possible to
> come up with schemas that create work for the XSLT author by 
> increasing the
> amount of string manipulation that's required. 

Often one additional wrapper in the source XML makes all the difference
in the world to the ease of processing via XSLT.
 To be able to sit (sorry, template match) on the wrapper, and play
with the children (??) of that wrapper is a piece of cake compared
to matching on one of many, and chasing along the axis to do something.

There's a design pattern here... somewhere.

DaveP
 


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