Re: When transformation language

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:01 18/05/97 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote:
>I would be curious if people who are skilled in the transformation language
>(perhaps in thought experiments :) ), could comment on the types of jobs
>that would be substantially easier with it than with Jade's style language
>extensions for SGML transformations. One thing I've noticed is that the
>transformation language seems to work on arbitrary groves and not just SGML
>document groves. Is that right?.

No: the part of the transformation language specification that deals with
turning the result grove into an SGML document and validating it are SGML
specific.  However, it wouldn't be hard to extend the transformation
language to work with arbitrary groves. It also wouldn't be hard to extend
Jade's style language extensions to work with arbitrary groves.

James


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