Subject: Re: Newbie question about latest XSL spec. From: Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:32:06 -0500 (EST) |
[David LeBlanc] > I could relate to conditionals in XSL if they have the same intended > usage as #ifdef, #ifndef etc in C/C++. As a replacement for > programming logic, it seems pointless and off purpose, especially > considering that an interface to one of the platform independent > unicode scripting languages such as javascript, tcl and soon perl. If any of those scripting languages can return nodes, then fine, but I need to be able to conditionally create nodes. AFAIK, those scripting languages can only help me get strings, and it doesn't seem tenable to have to create markup-looking strings in the scripting language and then ask the processor to re-parse those in context. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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