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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: config files proposal
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:38:16 +0000 (UTC)
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Volkert Barr <barr@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
:  Look at
: http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~barr/config_package.pdf.

Incidentally, for those who would like to have INI files,
here is an XSLT:

<!-- transform an XML configuration document into a Windows(TM)
     INI-style configuration text (may need refinements).

     Cannot handle the nested sections (are there nested sections in
     the INI file format?).

     See Volkert Barr's draft -->

<transform
  version="1.0"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <output method="text"/>

  <template match="/configuration">
    ;Configuration: <value-of select="@name"/>
    <apply-templates/>
  </template>

  <template match="description">
    ;<value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/> <!-- line breaking needed here -->
  </template>

  <template match="section">
    [<value-of select="@name"/>]
    <apply-templates/>
  </template>

  <template match="item">
    <value-of select="@*['key']"/>=<apply-templates/>
  </template>
     <!-- @*['key'] instead of @key to work around XSLT key() function  -->

 </transform>

With input copied from the example in the PDF, the output is


    ;Configuration: A_Configuration
  
    ;bla
  
    [A_Section]
    
    KeyX=ValueX
    
    [A_Subsection]
    
      
    ;bla bla
      Key1=Value1
      Key2=Value2
    
  
-- Georg