Re: More XSL Discussion

["Michael Kay" <M.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I strongly suspect that XSL will require this balancing *anyhow*. XSL
>flow objects are not HTML *code*, they are HTML *elements*. I do not
>think it makes sense to create half an element...

You're right, it doesn't make sense to create half an HTML element. It does
make sense, however, to generate one "output" HTML element as a result of
encountering a fairly complex input XML pattern. So if we want to avoid the
need to generate HTML in a piecemeal manner, we need to match larger
patterns in the XML input. The current facilities for matching start and end
of a sequence of elements separately are simply incompatible with the idea
of generating the start and end of an HTML entity as a unit.

Mike Kay


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