Re: alternatives to XSL (was RE: Microsoft extensions)

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Didier PH Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> You can try also the XSL competitor: DSSSL. James Clark provide a free exe
> on its site. It is called Jade. As you may know DSSSL is already an ISO
> standard. You can get also the source code on top of binaries. There is a
> drawback, you need to provide a fully qualified DTD with your document.

That isn't true. You can just tell Jade that you are working with DTD-less
XML.

> Originally, Jade has been created for SGML formats but, as you know XML
> format is also a Subset of the SGML format and therefore could be processed
> with Jade. On its site, James provides samples and links to samples. It
> basically allows you to transform XML into either SGML, XML, RTF, HTML and
> also with an extension Tex. because it is a exe it can run on a server and
> do not cost 60K ;-) Thre are some implementations in production that use
> Jade with success.

Jade is an excellent tool. The only reason I promote Python over Jade is
that many people find Jade's syntax and functional semantics to be
intimidating. Python is more familiar and sufficiently powerful.

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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