Re: More XSL Discussion

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sean Mc Grath wrote:
> 
> So what are you saying? That doing this:
> 
> <!-- XSL based report writer written in two seconds. Understandable
> in one second, and a lot easier to write, maintain and run than
> an equivalent perl, python, omnimark, c++, scheme, tcl, adept program
> would ever be -->
> <element type = "chapter">
>  <element type = "sect1">
>   <target-element type = "title">
>    println (...)
> 
> is an abuse of XSL?

No. It is simply not XSL. XSL specifies a mapping from an input to an
output. No matter how interesting one half or the other may be, that
half is *not XSL* without the other half. What you have above is an
XSL-like language for report writing -- which is probably quite
useful...it just isn't XSL. 

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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Annie: "It's so clean down here."
Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make 
        it into television shows."


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