Re: [xml] More windows exports

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:48:28PM +0200, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:07:39AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Okay, can I add the xsltproc command to regenerate it when the API
> > is rebuilt ?
>
> Sure. Regenerate it as often as you please :-)

  okay,

> Another thing, not necessarily related to the topic, but it has shaken
> my interest awake: 
>
> The stylesheet basically walks through all functions and
> variables, producing an entry for each in the .def.src file. For every
> symbol, it 
>
> 1. runs few xsl:if tests to determine if there should be an #ifdef
> 2. it outputs the symbol name
> 3. outputs the #endif which corresponds to the #ifdef from step 1.
>
> The step 1 can output more than one #ifdef, if a symbol depends on more
> macros, or no #ifdef at all. The step 3 must accordingly output the same
> number of #endifs.
>
> What I don't like is the fact that the step 3 must run the same tests as
> the step 1. In our example, the stylesheet is small and it does not
> matter, but somehow it would be cool if there were a way for the step 1
> to tell the step 3 simply how many #endifs it must output, to avoid
> duplicate tests.
>
> Do you have an idea? Or perhaps a hint for a better organisation of the
> stylesheet, which would avoid duplicate tests?

  Seems to me that the #ifdef and #endif should be done in the same
template, maybe the test should build simultaneously the #ifdef output
and a variable containing the #endif declarations to generate at the 
end of the template.

Daniel

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