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In the early 2000s, XSLT allowed me as a late teenager with some HTML experience but without real coding skills (I could copy some lines of PHP from various fo
by samuell 1y ago
In the early 2000s, XSLT allowed me as a late teenager with some HTML experience but without real coding skills (I could copy some lines of PHP from various forums and get it to work) to build a somewhat fancy intranet for a local car shop, complete with automatic styling of a feed of car info from a nationwide online sales portal.
Somehow it took me many years, basically until starting uni and taking a proper programming class, before I started feeling like I could realize my ideas in a normal programming language.
XSLT was a kind of tech that allowed a non-coder like me to step by step figure out how to get things to show on the screen.
I think XSLT really has some strong points, in this regard at least.
- samuell 1y agoIn later years, I returned to XSLT to try parsing a structured text format for tool definitions in the Galaxy bioinformatics platform. Turns out you can do a lot with the RegEx-support in XSLT 2.0! https://saml.rilspace.com/exercise-in-xslt-regex-partial-galaxy-toolconfig-to-docbook-cmdsynopsis-conversion.html https://saml.rilspace.com/exercise-in-xslt-regex-partial-gal... The result? A Java-based tools for creating CLI commands via a wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjXsBVqp7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjXsBVqp7s