Subject: XSL as a style language From: Jon.Bosak@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jon Bosak) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:41:18 -0800 |
I saw the discussion on this list a few weeks ago regarding XSL as a transformation language vs. XSL as a style language. Having been involved in the effort to bring a high-level style language to the Web for several years now, and having put a lot of work into getting that style language into the original XML charter (dating back to the summer of 1996) and forming the W3C group that is currently developing it, I have some fairly strong opinions on the subject. Unfortunately, I don't have time to engage in debate on this -- I read xsl-l and several other lists in digest form and often am not able even to skim all the messages, let alone join the discussion -- so I held my tongue and will continue to do so. (This is why I, and I suspect many others, refrained from participating in the poll that was taken at that time.) If anyone is interested in knowing where I stand on XSL and related issues, however, I would refer them to a presentation that I gave at INRIA last month. It's available in two parts linked from this page: http://www.inrialpes.fr/manifestations.html Part 1 of the presentation includes a demo you can download that is not based on XSL but does demonstrate the concept well enough to show why XSL has always been conceived of primarily as a style language by the people who agitated for the creation of the current W3C XSL Working Group. Again, I regret that I cannot engage in a discussion of these issues; if I could, you would have heard from me earlier. Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Bosak, Online Information Technology Architect, Sun Microsystems 901 San Antonio Road, MPK17-101, Palo Alto, California 94303 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34::NCITS V1::OASIS:: Chair, W3C XML Coordination Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You regard it much too much as a matter of course that one can tell anything to anyone. -- Wittgenstein ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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