<div dir="ltr">I did a bit of XSLT in the late 90s when XML was the hot new thing and XSLT looked like it could be a promising way to allow me to build a website that truly separated content from presentation in the days when convincing someone to set up a database for you was actually kind of hard. Browsers started to support it natively so I maybe didn't even need to run any code on the server, which was also a tough sell back then.<div>
<br></div><div>And I'm with Richard. Man, it's a pain. XSLT is pretty much impossible to debug. And it's a very tricky thing to get your head around.</div><div><br></div><div>I haven't looked into nice tools or anything, of course. It's not outside the realm of possibility that there's something out there that's easy and works well. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Good luck?</div><div><br></div><div>Darcy.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com" target="_blank">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:56 PM, unsolicited <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
...<br>
<div class="im">> Asking there too. No solutions / long term problem for that community, too.<br>
> Not being a Linux community, asked here. Bit of chicken and egg here -<br>
> learning curve. If I knew what I was looking for, I could try to leverage to<br>
> the other platform.<br>
<br>
</div>Oddly, I've been there. There was an OpenStreetMap rendering program<br>
that used xsl style sheets. OpenStreetMap data is XML. xslt did the<br>
rendering. Even oddly-er, the program allowed distributed rendering<br>
so that many devices could combine to render an area faster. The end<br>
solution for the OpenStreetMap community was 1) find that XML is bad<br>
enough without needlessly subjecting oneself to xsl and xslt. 2)<br>
Maintainer gives up on the code. 3) it falls from use.<br>
<br>
You haven't decided to follow that path.<br>
<br>
Yet.<br>
<br>
So, I'll present two alternatives that I've used.<br>
<br>
1) regexes to hack the XML. This is the stupidest idea in the world.<br>
Regexes are not suited to XML and vice-versa. Don't do this. But it<br>
works, sometimes, FVSO "works".<br>
<br>
2) hack the HTML. use the existing / working xsl and then<br>
post-process by hacking the resulting HTML by changing the CSS. html<br>
and css editing tools are fairly mature and not too user-hostile.<br>
<br>
And obviously, try changing the xsl to get the style you want rather<br>
than the style they gave you. Try something other than the default<br>
fancy style if you are finding it a bit opaque to improve or otherwise<br>
end to your will. It may be that a simpler / earlier style will be<br>
simpler to grok. But I'm sure you've done that already.<br>
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