Subject: Re: Measuring the complexity of XSLT stylesheets
From: James Fuller <jim.fuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:59:35 +0200
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Anthony B. Coates wrote
> I would suggest that this won't give you any meaningful results. The
> complexity of an XSLT transformation is driven by the
> structural/formatting differences between the input and the output
> formats. It is not directly related to the complexity of the schemata
> for the input/output formats.
agreed....I would suggest even a simple diff and counting the nodes,
between input and result trees, would be a rough indicator of XSLT
complexity...though these indirect type measurements can be quite brittle.
-Jim Fuller
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