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XSLT shorthand for PHP

As I trudge toward Exhibition v2, I am taking the templating in an entirely new direction. Exhibition deals with XML, a lot of XML. As a direct consequence there is a fairly substantial amount of XSLT. Noticing that XSLT has a very straightforward syntax, I decided to write a little preprocessor to save my fingers some walking later on. Most commands boil down to "command" or "command required_argument" (required_argument usually being an XPath expression). So, that's exactly what I pruned it down to.

<@ for-each atom @>

versus

<xsl:for-each select="atom">

Check it out --

xsltemplate.phps

xsltemplate-test.tpl
xsltemplate-test.xml
xsltemplate-test.xsl
(examples stolen from W3Schools)

Flixn, Scientology, Tom Cruise

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Tom, I loved you in Top Gun. I know that you must be very eager to find out what Flixn is, unfortunately it is not quite ready for public consumption. However, if you would like a sneak peek we may be able to accomodate you. Please let me know via my cell, ask your friend Xenu for the number.