Re: emitting comments

[Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One small advantage of xsl over dsssl is that the corresponding problem
> (which still does cause many questions on the xsl list) is simpler to
> explain in that case. It is a lot more obvious why the XML syntax of XSL
> should be parsed by an XML parser, than why the lisp syntax of DSSSL
> should be parsed by an SGML parser (and then again by a lisp parser).

And a small advantage of dsssl over xsl is that you can derive a dtd
for your style-sheets from the dsssl architecture which uses cdata declared
content for the style-specification-body to avoid the whole problem.
xml doesn't allow that. Or is this impossible for some reason ?

Matthias
 
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