Subject: RE: OO and scripting From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 23:55:32 -0400 |
Didier PH Martin wrote: > What's funny is that none of these languages can create > themselves (like C, > C++, python, Java, Perl, etc...) this is because they are event handlers, > they react to the original document like GUI event handlers react to the > user's actions. These languages cannot live without the document like GUI > event handlers cannot live without the GUI. So Alan would find it funny to > see the data as an event generator. In fact, when we think a bit > more, this > is the paradigm shift :-) Exactly! the XML data is a set of instructions to the XSL engine in exactly the same way as the javascript within a <script> block is a set of instructions to the javascript interpreter or an HTML document is a set of instructions to an HTML layout engine or any other language is a set of instructions to its evaluator. The distinction between data and program is completely arbitrary. Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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