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Bug 95642

Summary: Would be great to have the XSLT editor outside the JBI concept
Product: soa Reporter: _ gsporar <gsporar>
Component: XSLTAssignee: Alexey Yarmolenko <alexeyyarmolenko>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker CC: slunegov
Priority: P4    
Version: 5.x   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 112118    

Description _ gsporar 2007-02-15 06:46:04 UTC
The new XSLT editor is very nice but it is only available in the context of a
JBI module of the appropriate type.  That's kind of a bummer.  There are lots of
NetBeans users (and potential NetBeans users) who could use the XSLT editor to
create XSLT stylesheets, but they have no interest in JBI.  

It is a similar situation to our XML Schema editor - it is of value even if a
user has no interest in JBI.  It would be great if the new XSLT editor was
structured the same way.
Comment 1 Alexey Yarmolenko 2007-02-28 13:01:33 UTC
We considered such oportunity, but discovered several problems on this way:

1. Mapper relies on other artifacts found in JBI project(such as xsltmap.xml and
.wsdl) to know its input and output types. We cant show source and target trees
without this information. To bypass this restriction we should give user a way
to specify schemas for input and output document and persist this informathion
somewhere between editing sessions.

2. Existing mapper supports very limited subset of XSLT instructions. For
example, it DOES NOT support xsl:template, xsl:apply-template, etc. This
limitation is dificult to avoid from implementation point o view. So, current
mapper can be considered to be a tool to draw simple transformations, but not as
all-purpose XSL editing tool.


Depending on our resource allocation, we can try to fix #1 in hula release
timeframe. But fixing #2 may require some new ideas on implememntation and usage
workflow.

Comment 2 _ gsporar 2007-05-28 14:03:19 UTC
Just FYI, some VOC here:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nbentpack&msgNo=1000
Comment 3 Jiri Prox 2007-09-17 20:25:27 UTC
Obsolete milestone, please reevaluate
Comment 4 ceklock 2011-09-19 20:27:55 UTC
Not critical. Changed to P4.