Subject: Re: SGML output from XSL? From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 12:01:50 -0600 |
Chris Lilley wrote: > > > The XSL specification explicitly describes how to create non-XML HTML. The > > note in section 2.2 is very explicit. > > The note is documenting an obscure quirk of one particular > implementation. Creating non-XML is outside the chartered scope of XSL. Creating non-FO XML is also outside the chartered scope of XSL. Clearly the committee is interested in making XSL useful beyond style application. Let me see if I can wrap this up. I said that XSL as currently defined can generate non-XML output. In fact, there is a note in the XSL specification that says how to do that. That note explicitly mentions HTML 4.0 as an example of non-XML output so it isn't talking about Voyager and that isn't an accident. You seem to be going back and forth between arguing that it *does not* allow non-XML output and that it *should not*. I claim as a matter of fact that today, it does and as a matter of opinion that it should. I don't need a point by point argument to back up the first argument because the XSL specification is quite explicit. As far as the second point: people are using these feature and like it. If it isn't implemented in a semi-portable, standardized way then it will be implemented through processing instructions, command line arguments etc. The way it is currently implemented does not seem to hurt anything. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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