Re: [xsl] Announcement: Dexter - XSL Transform Generation Tool

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is the form or an "arbitrary data set" and where would I get such  
a thing?

With respect,
Steven


On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Michael Dykman wrote:

> > I'm a professional computer scientist and I had exactly the same
> > experience as Brad. And I'm not sure your comments here help. I think
> > what you mean to say is Brad can take his existing HTML pages and
> > convert them to use XSL.
> >
> > At least that was my best guess after a quick look at it.
> >
> > With respect,
> > Steven
>
> That is my intention.  I apologize for the documentation.. I have had
> a very hard time getting proof readers who were familiar with XSLT or
> whaty the heck I was trying to do in the first place.
>
> The idea is that any well-formed XML (there is little special support
> for XHTML) can be compiled into an XSL stylesheet and bound to any
> arbitrary data set.  The only example provided is docster.html which
> can be viewed in a standard browser, and is also the 'source code'
> for docster.html.xsl which formats the documentation.  The operators
> are embedded as attributes in the source document.
>
> I will put some effort into a brief, clearer description of the
> overall goal here and get it out there shortly.
>
> Thank you again for your comments.
>
> --
> - michael dykman
> - mdykman@xxxxxxxxx
>
> - All models are wrong.  Some models are useful.