Subject: Re: `High-level' format specifications with XSL? From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 02 Jul 1998 18:36:42 +0200 |
>>>>> Paul Grosso <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Admittedly, this is a confusing part of what's called XSL. XSL is > developing into a language that can specify a "stylesheet" that > can do one of two things (that is, any given "stylesheet" can only > do one of the two): > > 1. Specify how to map an XML document into a structure of > formatting objects with formatting properties that is meant to > drive a composition process. This is the process I assumed in the > first part of my response above. > > 2. Specify how to map one XML document into a second XML > document. In this case, the result is "just" another XML document > which is no closer to having defined style *as far as XSL is > concerned* than the original one. In this case, XSL is being used > to specify a transformation, so the so-called "stylesheet" is > really a "transformation specification." Okay. So it seems I'm trying to do the wrong thing. What I really want is to produce HTML, which falls under category 2 (mostly). I was confused by the fact that in XSL I can say I want <HTML> and <BODY> elements in the output (if one is using HTML flow control objects). This sounded a lot like one could produce HTML, but it seems to do something different, even though the document that pops out after I do the xslj/jade thing looks a lot like an HTML document. So, given that I use xslj/jade, is there a way for me to do the XML->XML transformation thing? If not, is there any other software which runs on Solaris which can do this? kai -- You ate somebody? -- Just a leg. -- That's terrible! -- Not with mustard. (Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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