Automated mass production of XSLT stylesheets
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Track: Large-Scale Architectures, Core Technologies
Audience Level: Technical view
Time: Thursday, November 17 11:45
Keywords: Content Conversion, Stylesheet, XSLT
Abstract:
Many have wished for a tool that would automate the creation of XSLT stylesheets. Building the interface alone to such a tool sounds like a tough job, and getting it to output working XSLT stylesheets that accomplish non-trivial tasks also sounds challenging. However, the comfort level of nearly all computer users with basic spreadsheet software actually makes the first task simpler than it once appeared to be, and the ease with which popular spreadsheet programs now save their contents in XML means that when you start with the right spreadsheet template, an XSLT stylesheet is not difficult to create from the XML version of a spreadsheet that uses that template.
