Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: [xml-dev] Schema, BNF and parsing [Thread Next] RE: [xml-dev] Schema, BNF and parsingTo: "Michael Kay" <mike@--------.--->,"'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@---.--.--.--> Date: 3/4/2005 7:42:00 PM At 02:21 PM 3/4/2005, Michael Kay wrote: > > My real "beef" is the 2666 line script. It has numerous > > redundancies (i.e. duplicate code) and looks like a nightmare > > to maintain. > > >It's a common problem. I once reduced a 2000-line stylesheet to 20 lines >plus some data tables. There are lots of people who learn how to write >concrete XSLT code without learning how to write it generically at a higher >level of abstraction. The same is probably true of most languages. At least you're giving me some hope here - as it stands it is unmaintainable...do you consult ? :-) >Michael Kay >http://www.saxonica.com/ Andrew Jeavons | ||||||
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