you mofo old useless xslt 1.0 junk, or xslt custom extensions Options

[amir]

i wish firefox bookmark organizer had a counter to see how many bookmarks are sitting in there. even thinking about how big the number could be scares the crap out of me.

as the greatest boss of mine asked for, I looked into my bookmarks & found some precious piece of url to some article which I have summarized it here:

if you need to have your xml processor do something fancy for you & if the processor happens to be either of MS ones (MSXML or .Net), then forget about begging old XPATH/XSLT 1.0 to do it for you. write your own nasty piece of code (a .Net language or JS/VB for MSXML) & put it right in the middle of the xslt file & have the processor suck it up! (while saying : you mofo old useless xslt 1.0 junk, now eat this! i don't need ur built-in crap! )

CODE

<xsl:transform version="1.0"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
   xmlns:havingFun="csharp.xslt.ext">
     <xsl:output method="text"/>
     <ms:script language="C#" implements-prefix="havingFun">
         <![CDATA[    
         public string HaveFun(string str)
         {            
             return "Having Fun Now with " + str;
         }    
     ]]>
     </ms:script>    
     <xsl:template match="/">        
         <xsl:value-of select="havingFun:HaveFun(/items/item[1])"/>
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>

of course the point is that XSLT built-in functions are limited & can't do every crazy thing my boss asks for.

I don't know why that article is that long but the whole trick is the

CODE

     <ms:script language="C#" implements-prefix="havingFun">

& there must be a non-MS tag too somewhere out there.

[usr.c]

XML tends to be verbose, much like Java, which tends to be a pain in the backside a lot of the time.

[amir]

XML tends to be verbose, much like Java, which tends to be a pain in the backside a lot of the time.

i think the writer of the article won't get paid if his article is as short of mine!

[MaD_cOw]

XML tends to be verbose, much like Java, which tends to be a pain in the backside a lot of the time.

But Java is an ENTERPRISE SOLUTION.
Verbosity is needed for something like that

This post has been edited by MaD_cOw: Mar 20 2010, 09:49 PM