& XSLT http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/cyclomatic_body.html


Cyclomatic Complexity (McCabe)
Measures the number of linearly-independent paths through a program module
 
Halstead Complexity Measures
Algorithmic complexity, measured by counting operators and operands

 
Henry and Kafura metrics
Coupling between modules (parameters, global variables, calls)

 
Bowles metrics
Module and system complexity; coupling via parameters and global variables

 
Troy and Zweben metrics
Modularity or coupling; complexity of structure (maximum depth of
structure chart); calls-to and called-by

 
Ligier metrics
Modularity of the structure chart
 


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

On 4/18/05, Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@[...].no>  wrote:
>  
>  I'm writing a paper where I'm evaluating different XML vocabularies
>  for expressing the same information, and one of my evaluation criteria
>  is how easily the resulting XML can be processed with XSLT. At the
>  moment the paper contains only prose with a subjective appraisal of
>  the various approaches. This is fine, as far as it goes, but it would
>  be nice to have something more objective to back it up with. Are there
>  any established criteria for evaluating the complexity of XSLT
>  stylesheets?
>  
>  There are some obvious criteria I could think of, like:
>  
>  - size of stylesheet in bytes, lines, and XML elements+attributes,
>  
>  - number of elements from the XSLT namespace, and
>  
>  - combined length (in characters) of XPath expressions.
>  
>  I think these criteria would work, but I'm not convinced that they
>  really capture complexity directly. Can anyone suggest better
>  alternatives?
>  
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