Subject: Fwd: Re: [xsl] element nodes in a string? From: Chris Nolte <cgn7094@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:22:58 -0700 (PDT) |
oops, my initial reply went just to Peter. > --- Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Use the right tool and the problem disappears. > > Thank you very much, I will certainly look into your > suggestions. > > However, it is not at all immediately obvious to this > newbie why a file that is already well-formed XML > cannot undergo such a simple transformation using > XSLT. This seems to be a limitation to XSLT, not an > inherently nonsensical thing to do. > > I know other tools exist to do this; my goal is to > learn about XML and XSLT, and this task was simply > chosen to focus my study. The goal is to learn > something about XML and its uses/limitations, not to > solve this particular text transformation problem. > > It is perfectly ok for me to take away from this the > conclusion "XSLT is not suited to this kind of > transformation," but I don't see how one could be > expected to know that in the beginning. And I don't > think I would run into this problem if I were > transforming to, say, latex. It is only because HTML > elements are interpreted as XML elements that I have > trouble. > > Can you give me a general statement of the sorts of > applications for which XSL *is* well-suited? It's not > a database, but it does have several database-like > capabilities. It's not for text markup, though it can > do that, sort of, sometimes... > > Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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