Subject: Re: XSL and entities From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 16:04:15 -0400 |
At 10:40 AM -0500 9/19/98, Paul Prescod wrote: are you using? This does not look right. > >Nevertheless, you should know that you are probably doomed to failure >using XSL out-of-the-box as a generic XML->foo conversion tool. That's not >what it is meant to do and XSL processors do not support it well. Half of >the messages in this fora are from people trying to do that and finding it >difficult or impossible. > Which begs the question: should there be some other technology which does allow fairly arbitrary conversions from XML->foo? Something easier than writing a Java program on top of SAX? What would such a thing look like? I have a suspicion the pattern matching might look a lot like XSL, but the output flow objects would be very different. +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML: Extensible Markup Language (IDG Books 1998) | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764531999/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://sunsite.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://sunsite.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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