Fun with xslt...

[usernamenumber]

One of my specialties at work is an xml dialect that describes how to turn documents written in another arbitrary xml dialect into another-other arbitrary xml dialect. I swear if this gets any more meta, I'm going to gain the power to alter reality around me with my text editor.

Which would be pretty cool.

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[wombatbanana.livejournal.com]

I've been playing around with using XSLT → SVG+JavaScript to generate interactive charts. It's fun stuff.

[laurion]

I've not had to muck with it, but I've seen the internals of such a process looking at the course conversion scripts that convert from Blackboard to Moodle. Suffice to say, it -isn't- pretty, and isn't helped by the fact that Blackboard is reluctant to provide any useful information on their file and data structures.

Metas hacked!

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

At my old company, we had a program written in...err... I forget, but some vaguely obscure language which took user input and used it to generate XSLT to translate between XML dialects.

The XML, of course, was usually being used as an intermediary language between two other languages (facepalm).