Subject: Re: MatTS, an alternate syntax for XSLT
From: Evan Lenz <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:36:02 -0800
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Wow, this is what I've been waiting for! I was just thinking the other
day that XSLT is cool and all, but it clearly does not have enough Greek
symbols. I can't believe how perfectly your proposal addresses my
deepest needs as a human being!
Thank you Sean, I am indebted to you.
Evan
Sean M. Burke wrote:
In the best tradition of modern higher mathematical notation and
typography
[http://math.berkeley.edu/~ilya/papers/PL_Grassmannian/gel_dikf.pdf],
I have chosen well-known Greek letters and various printers' symbols
for the operators.
The following table illustrates and specifies this formalism:
N1 apply-imports
N2 apply-templates
O attribute
N attribute-set
N; call-template
N> choose
O comment
N< copy
N3 copy-of
N decimal-format
O element
N8 fallback
N6 for-each
O if
N) import
N include
N key
N< message
N namespace-alias
N= number
O otherwise
N output
N' param
N preserve-space
N5 sort
N? strip-space
N# stylesheet
N template
N9 text
N$ transform
N: value-of
N4 variable
O when
O with-param
N processing-instruction
B?... test="..."
b... name="..."
b ... match="..."
B'... select="..."
B+...B; (general attribute value)
The preceding explanation aside, the best way to appreciate MatTS is
by simply trying it out -- MatTS as a visualization application is
itself implemented in browser-accessible XSLT, and so can be used to
view other XSLTs as well as itself:
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/xsl/matts_usage_example.xsl
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/xsl/matts.xsl
Compare with the clutter of those XSLs when viewed in conventional
XSLT notation:
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/xsl/matts_usage_example.xsl.txt
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/xsl/matts.xsl.txt
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