Mike,
Some other things can be done, but will always be a little
difficult. Then again, there are things that XSLT will never do
well. Yesterday's thread about converting Cobol (or maybe Cobol
Data) to XML probably goes in that category.
Though with the regular expression handling in XSLT 2.0, you can
make a reasonable stab at it.
It would still be pretty hard, though, given that there's no support
for matching nested structures. You can use the regular expression
support to tokenise a string (such as a Cobol program) but getting
from there to a parse tree is not straight forward (and
<xsl:for-each-group> won't help). Or have I missed something?
Cheers,
Jeni
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