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YO DAWG I HERD YOU LIKE XSL
I spent most of this week writing XSL templates for transforming XML messages into other, similar, XML messages. Ah, bless.
Thanks to the practice of companies (including us!) making minor changes to standard XSDs, several of the input/output format combinations are identical apart from namespaces and a couple of tag names. Copy-pasting a template six times seemed like a bad idea – it contains some non-obvious bits, and the formats are bound to change since the requirements aren’t yet nailed down.
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