RE: alternatives to XSL (was RE: Microsoft extensions)

["Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

You can try also the XSL competitor: DSSSL. James Clark provide a free exe
on its site. It is called Jade. As you may know DSSSL is already an ISO
standard. You can get also the source code on top of binaries. There is a
drawback, you need to provide a fully qualified DTD with your document.
Originally, Jade has been created for SGML formats but, as you know XML
format is also a Subset of the SGML format and therefore could be processed
with Jade. On its site, James provides samples and links to samples. It
basically allows you to transform XML into either SGML, XML, RTF, HTML and
also with an extension Tex. because it is a exe it can run on a server and
do not cost 60K ;-) Thre are some implementations in production that use
Jade with success.

Hope this will help you, the link to James' site is: http://www.jclark.com/

Cheers

Didier PH Martin
mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.netfolder.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lawton, Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 3:48 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: alternatives to XSL (was RE: Microsoft extensions)
>
>
> > XML to HTML is a trivial problem
>
> I suspect your definition of trivial must differ from mine....
>
>
> > that has
> > been solved with free software since before there was an XML.
> > If you are into easy scripting language, Python...
>
> Sure, I could roll my own but it seems safe to assume that one goal of XSL
> is to make XML-to-HTML (and other transformations) easier than writing the
> whole thing in a scripting or programming language.  Having spent
> more than
> a week solid with XSL, it doesn't yet seem up to the task (at least for my
> XML and my desired HTML).  That's fine, it's a working draft --
> but I've got
> something to deliver now.  So, I'm looking for alternatives to
> XSL that are
> a bit higher level than conventional scripting languages.
>
> OmniMark LE has been suggested (I downloaded it and will take a look);
> anything else?
>
> (Saxon was mentioned but that's for Java programmers.)
>
> TIA,
>
> Scott
>
>
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