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 parsing RE: [xml-dev] Schema, BNF and parsingTo: "'Andrew Jeavons'" <apj@-------------.--->,"'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@---.--.--.--> Date: 3/4/2005 7:21:00 PM > 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. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ | ||||||
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