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[xsl] Design Question: XSLT Configurable

2009-07-21 04:33:50

Hi there,

i work on a application that let the users configure it to their needs using a 
certain file (a user-settings.xml)
during the years this file has changed, so there exist different versions now. 
my idea is to transform all of them to the newest version.
the configuration file is a very simple xml file (max 2 levels), the changes 
are also moderate (create node, delete node, rename node and merge content of 
nodes).
the thing is, i want to keep the transformation expandable by only configuring 
what have changed from version to version.
e.g. like that

-------------------------------------
<Versions>
    <Version nr="0.3">
        <Actions>
            <RenameAction fromElement="elementA" toElement="elementD"/>
        </Actions>
    </Version>
    <Version nr="0.2">
        <Actions>
            <MergeContentAction toElement="elementA" separator=" ">
                <MergeFromElement name="elementB"/>
                <MergeFromElement name="elementC"/>
            </MergeContentAction>
        </Actions>
    </Version>
    <Version nr="0.1">
</Versions>
-------------------------------------

so, i only will have one transformation file instead of a file for each version.

what about this approach? i think that this is supposed to be a common issue, 
isn't it?

Thanks for your ideas,
Matthias





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