Re: [dssslist] macro and XPath features?

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oleg Paraschenko:
>   I've looked through the DSSSL specification, but haven't found answers
> for the following questions.
>
> * Does DSSSL have macro facilities?

That depends on what you mean.  As a Scheme dialect, you can define
functions; with no parameters, a function is pretty much the same as a
macro.

Also, because your stylesheet specification is an SGML document instance,
you can use SGML entities that way.  (However, I find the benefit of doing
that is well offset by the benefit of wrapping the entire stylesheet in a
CDATA marked section, so I dont generally do that.)

> * Does DSSSL have an analogue of XPath?

Not really, at least not in any short string syntax.  There is a query
language called SDQL thats part of DSSSL, but its much more verbose than
XPath.

~Chris
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