Subject: Re: More XSL Discussion From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:17:15 -0500 |
Sean Mc Grath wrote: > > So what are you saying? That doing this: > > <!-- XSL based report writer written in two seconds. Understandable > in one second, and a lot easier to write, maintain and run than > an equivalent perl, python, omnimark, c++, scheme, tcl, adept program > would ever be --> > <element type = "chapter"> > <element type = "sect1"> > <target-element type = "title"> > println (...) > > is an abuse of XSL? No. It is simply not XSL. XSL specifies a mapping from an input to an output. No matter how interesting one half or the other may be, that half is *not XSL* without the other half. What you have above is an XSL-like language for report writing -- which is probably quite useful...it just isn't XSL. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco [Woody Allen on Hollywood in "Annie Hall"] Annie: "It's so clean down here." Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows." XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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