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RE: [xml-dev] Schema, BNF and parsing

From: "Michael Kay" <mike@--------.--->
To: "'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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