Subject: Re: Dealing with markup not known in advance From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:40:01 -0400 |
Clark Cooper wrote: > > Say I want to transform a certain element in a document, perhaps > putting a wrapper element, or adding attributes, but want to keep the > content exactly the same, *including the existing markup.* > We may not know in advance all the different kinds of markup elements that > might be slipped into the class of documents that this stylesheet is > to be applied to. Something like this is likely to be added to XML. The WD explicitly says that the language must be extended to allow the identity transform. I don't know if it will be sufficiently general to allow attributes to be added and removed, or GI's copied or "forged." Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco 4'33" is rarely performed as an encore. - Steve Newcomb (for info about 4'33": http://www.lenzo.com/~sburke/stuff/cage_433.html http://www.intrex.net/rwgarr/johncage.htm) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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