RE: Chapter 14 of the XML Bible now online

Subject: RE: Chapter 14 of the XML Bible now online
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:46:00 +0100
> I quite enjoyed this. But I do take exception to the statement
>  
> "You cannot use XSL to transform to or from non-XML formats 
> like PDF, TeX,
>  Microsoft Word, PostScript, MIDI, or others"
> 
> as it is supported both explicitly in XT, and implicitly by
> <xsl:text>. 

It's also supported (very explicitly) in SAXON. But I think the statement is
technically correct: there is no way within the standard of outputting text
containing the "<" and "&" characters in their normal (non-XML) form.

Mike Kay


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