Hi

>How difficult would it be to write an XSLT style
>sheet that would perform weave and tangle on an
>XML file? I almost sat down to give it an initial
>try when I thought about doing a web search on the
>subject of "XML"

I never published it, but part of my (1999-2000) Master's work was XML LP
with XSL tangle/weave. In fact, it was self-hosting: the XSL programs
themselves were literate. One goal was to make the LP markup compatible with
DocBook, so I would get maximum markup semantics with minimum new markup. I
used only HTML as an output format. That was an implementation choice, not
an archtectural foundation.

I also bolted on markup for requirements tracing. That way, the statement of
the problem, the solution, verification scripts and data, etc, would all be
literate and would also be strung together in a way compatible with good
software engineering practice. (HTML output format was especially nice,
since I could link requirements to implementation etc.) The requirements
tracing markup and LP markup were independent of each other. They could be
used separately or together.

-- Tom VanCourt

PS: The biggest reason I never published was that practice in the field was
already way ahead of my work. The novelty I added was standards compliance
for text markup (DocBook) and software engineering documentation (per IEEE
standards).

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