some basic questions

[Jason Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings and Salutations, DSSSL folk. I've a couple of questions I
would love for someone to shed a bit of light on. 

I am working on some very complex SGML transformations, and have
implemented most of them in Perl. I would like to port that work over to
DSSSL, and have had some brief experience with DSSSL (I've been to a
tutorial at the HyTime conference, and I've written a couple of
transformation scripts that I can run using Jade.)

My goal is to develop a rules-based system for translating, much in the
way you could write a complex set of OmniMark or Balise rules. It's my
understanding that I will need a DSSSL engine that supports the query
language. And then I hear about a partial query language called
DSSSL-Online. Is that a subset of the query language that might have
everything I need? I am a bit confused on this point, but I also think
that Jade does not implement the query language (or maybe there's
something I'm not quite getting...)

If anyone could offer a suggestion about tools that might implement the
query language (or part of it), please let me know!

Thanks very much!

Jason 

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Jason P. Williams
Clinical Data Engineering
Oceania, Inc.
650-813-4505



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