Wilfred Thinking Aloud

Cleaning Up the Attic

Once in a while, I all of a sudden run into projects that I haven't touched for ages. Today I had such an experience. While thinking about a way to pretty print DTDs using XSLT, I realized that it would be impossible to have word-wrapped comments without either using some very complicated XSLT constructions, or a dedicated XSLT extension. EXSLT doesn't really provide anything that I can use out of the box, and apart from that, EXSLT is not entirely implemented in Xalan.

When I thought about a solution, I suddenly realized that - more than a year ago - I had been working for half a day on something that might come in handy now. If stuff is hanging around on your hard disk for over a year without ever being touched, then it's definitely ready to be either open sourced or to be moved to /dev/nul. I decided to go for the former option, so I quickly added some LGPL references and Copyright statements and uploaded it to the Web, just a minute ago.

Just see for yourself if it comes in handy. I of course do not accept any responsibility whatsoever for any damage this tool does to your products or customers. (I would however be curious to find out what it is :^)

You can dowload a binary version of the Xalan extension here. I will package the sources in a day or something. (It's just one source file, so it can't be that hard...)