On 26/03/2008, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
Of course a system might raise all kinds of warnings and/or coding hints
to that are not mandated by the specification, but the primary role of
an XSLT system is surely to implement the spec, not to offer general
programming help over and above what the language specifies.
XSLT IDEs already provide basic intellisense given an input document,
but that could be so much better given a schema.
Imagine a nice red underline below an incorrect XPath, or
control-spacing your way down from the root. Or perhaps renaming an
element in the schema and having it renamed throughout your stylesheet
(and beyond that - renaming it in an XPath and it being changed
throughout).
Writing XPaths should be a case of "slash, ctrl->space, enter, slash,
ctrl->space, enter" :)
Equally, doing something like <head/> in a schema aware transform to
XHTML should result in a nice underline, with the option to
auto-complete all required elements (meta and title iirc)
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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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