Specifying Transformations for Structured Documents.
Xuerong Tang, Frank Wm. Tompa · 2001
Structured document transformation is important for XML to serve as the universal data interchange format for the Web. W3C's XSLT is a powerful transformation language, but it requires detailed programming. As alternatives, SDT and TT grammars are widely used to specify transformations between programming languages. They have been proposed as descriptive specification techniques for structured document transformation, but they have limited expressive power. We propose a new approach based on syntax tree templates. Our approach is both descriptive and expressive as a specification language. We illustrate how a specification using this approach can be converted to XSLT for execution.