Question

I have some third party web service documentation formatted into HTML tables like this (first line is the header):

ElementNum|ElementName|DataType|Length|DecimalPlaces|Description
0123456879|SomeElement|Alphanum|10    |0            |YourMotherTrebek

I need to generate request/response objects based on the rows in this table:

/// <summary>0123456789</summary>
public string SomeElement { get; set; }

The quick and dirty route involved me copying tables from a browser into a text editor and doing find/replaces, but that doesn’t work so well when I get into method documentation where the request object has >300 input fields.

Is T4 or XSLT the way to go for something like this, or is there an easier way?

Answer 1

Don’t ask me to write it for you but you might consider XSLT. It is an incredibly powerful pattern-matching language for transforming XML into anything else. You might at least try adding that as a tag to see if anyone has done something similar.