Comments on: Transforming Coldfusion code with XSLT http://jdowdle.com/wp/2009/05/transforming-coldfusion-code-with-xslt/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jon Dowdle http://jdowdle.com/wp/2009/05/transforming-coldfusion-code-with-xslt/comment-page-1/#comment-2516 Jon Dowdle Mon, 18 May 2009 14:27:42 +0000 http://jdowdle.com/wp/?p=306#comment-2516 @Ben, It was a pretty interesting exercise. One could pre-process the CF and make it easier to parse. The simplest way would be to use a few simple regex's on the input but I feel it would miss many cases. On the more complex side you could write a whole grammar and compile the CF to XML using lex/yacc. (note: I'm not sure if there is an easier way to do this, it is just what we used in school 3 years ago) @Ben,

It was a pretty interesting exercise.

One could pre-process the CF and make it easier to parse. The simplest way would be to use a few simple regex’s on the input but I feel it would miss many cases. On the more complex side you could write a whole grammar and compile the CF to XML using lex/yacc. (note: I’m not sure if there is an easier way to do this, it is just what we used in school 3 years ago)

]]> By: Ben Nadel http://jdowdle.com/wp/2009/05/transforming-coldfusion-code-with-xslt/comment-page-1/#comment-2514 Ben Nadel Mon, 18 May 2009 13:28:23 +0000 http://jdowdle.com/wp/?p=306#comment-2514 @Jon, I've often thought about playing around with this. I never had a real intent, but I thought it would be fun as I love XML. That's an interesting problem about the parsing. I guess you'd have to make your own custom parser that would be more tag based than pure XML based. @Jon,

I’ve often thought about playing around with this. I never had a real intent, but I thought it would be fun as I love XML. That’s an interesting problem about the parsing. I guess you’d have to make your own custom parser that would be more tag based than pure XML based.

]]> By: Jon Dowdle http://jdowdle.com/wp/2009/05/transforming-coldfusion-code-with-xslt/comment-page-1/#comment-2491 Jon Dowdle Sun, 17 May 2009 12:40:13 +0000 http://jdowdle.com/wp/?p=306#comment-2491 I've been working with XSLT for the last week so this crazy idea popped into my head. The closest thing to a real-world application that this could be used in would be generating documentation. Fortunately there are much easier ways of doing this (<a href="http://cfcdoc.riaforge.org/" rel="nofollow">cfcdoc</a>). I’ve been working with XSLT for the last week so this crazy idea popped into my head. The closest thing to a real-world application that this could be used in would be generating documentation. Fortunately there are much easier ways of doing this (cfcdoc).

]]> By: Russ http://jdowdle.com/wp/2009/05/transforming-coldfusion-code-with-xslt/comment-page-1/#comment-2473 Russ Sat, 16 May 2009 22:48:14 +0000 http://jdowdle.com/wp/?p=306#comment-2473 Yeah I have no idea what you would want to do this for. Ideas? Yeah I have no idea what you would want to do this for. Ideas?

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