Re: (dsssl) Heresy

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2003-04-04 12:53 -0500, tmcd@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> It has occurred to me that DSSSL is, well, not as popular as it ought
> to have been, and that its functions have possibly <whisper>been
> superceded by other systems</whisper>.

:{)}

> I use DSSSL for transforming XML into RTF and HTML in particular.
> Is it possible to perform such functions of DSSSL using XSLT or other
> technologies?

I must confess that I have migrated all of my DSSSL work to XSLT and XSL-FO 
and do no further work with DSSSL.

> My apologies for my heretical question.

Hey, cruel marketplace pressures often force one down the "popular" path 
instead of the "best" path.  Many on this list know I was a *big* fan of 
DSSSL when I was teaching it.  I still think DSSSL is "better", but it is 
losing ground in its superiority as new versions of XSL get produced ... I 
cannot afford to use DSSSL any more since I'm getting zero business from it 
and I am getting business from XSL.

Actually, in today's depressed training marketplace, I suppose I can't say 
I'm getting much business from either, but certainly it has been *zero* for 
DSSSL for a few years now.

.................. Ken


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