David Love

Abstract

XSLT is a transform language for XML that is defined over XML. In other words, XSLT is a language that performs transforms on XML documents, and XSLT programs are themselves XML documents. While XSLT is by nature a functional language, its definition as an XML application obfuscates this fact [15]. Previous research projects have taken the XML-Infoset and provided an alternate syntax in the form of S-expressions, along with providing languages to perform transformations of the new representation in manners similar to that of XSLT. For example, SXML / SXSLT performs this function by embedding said languages in Scheme [9]. XLove applies modern principles of object-oriented design, namely design patterns, to this problem. Xl is an alternate syntax for the XML-Infoset. It maintains a clear distinction between attributes and elements (while having a concise notation for namespaces). The syntax is built into a representation over the Document Object Model by observers responding to parsing events. Xlt is an alternate syntax for XSLT designed to emphasize the functional nature of the language. A set of visitors transforms the input Document Object Model tree into an output tree by mapping the Xlt abstract syntax tree to XSLT. The resultant document is a valid XSLT program over the Document Object Model which can than be directly executed or output as an XML file.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

XSLT (Computer program language); Programming languages (Electronic computers)--Syntax

Publication Date

2007

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

Computer Science (GCCIS)

Advisor

Schreiner, Axel-Tobias

Advisor/Committee Member

Heliotis, James

Advisor/Committee Member

Radziszowski, Stanislaw

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: QA76.73.X58 L68 2007

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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