From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-09-02T02:25:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Builder Question

Keith Fahlgren <keith@oreilly.com> writes:

> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to have Builder help me turn some YAML into XSLT that does 
> search and replace. I've gotten most of it down (and working a helluva 
> lot faster than YAML->XML->XSLT->XSLT...) but am struggling with a 
> couple of issues. Everybody will probably tell me to use a different 
> XML writer, and that's ok, I guess...

Following code is untested, and just from the source:

> The documentation says I can declare a namespace like this:
>   xml.SOAP :Envelope
>
> How do I combine that with attributes? I'd like to do this, but it 
> doesn't work:
>   xml.xsl :variable ("name"=>"cats")     # and this in different orders
>
> Nor does:
>   xml.tag!("xsl:variable" "name"=>"cats")   # and this with different 
> grouping

Did you try  xml.xsl :variable, "name" => "cats"  ?

> Also, is there any way to make elements with a '-' in the name, as in 
> <apply-templates/>?
> This doesn't work:
>    xml.apply-templates

xml.tag! "apply-templates"

> In summary, is there a way to make this?
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="cats"/>
>    ...
> </xsl:stylesheet>

xml.xsl :stylesheet, "version" => "1.0" do
  xml.xsl "apply-templates", "select" => "cats" do
    ...
  end
end

(I hope that works. :-))

> Many thanks,
> Keith

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