Re: alternating tags in a list?

[Andy Dent <dent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Prescod wrote
>You write the DOM code and it is executed either before or after the XSL
>style application.
Which means I no longer have a shippable document that can be used with a
generic XSL styling application.

>The point is
>that by segmenting layers, we can build a more robust, reliable,
>implementable, clean, easy-to-understand system.
I have no problems with a layered approach in the processing of a document.

As soon as we lose that single document then the operational scenarios for
styled rendition of XML are severely limited.

Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM, Software Designer, A.D. Software, Western Australia
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