Re: Language is not markup and markup is not language.

[David LeBlanc <whisper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An early draft of XSL included the use of ECMA-script (javascript), but
that was taken out for some, as far as I know, unexplained reason. My guess
is that real world XML/XSL will end up with a <script> tag anyway (as was
also mentioned by Guy Murphy).

Dave LeBlanc

At 09:58 AM 5/7/99 -0700, Rick Geimer wrote:
>It's a little late now as far as XSL is concerned, but I sometimes wonder
if it
>would have been possible to simply take an existing language and massage it
>into XML syntax. This could have accomplished the ease of processing goals
you
>mentioned above, allowed for greater flexibility, and helped speed adoption.
>
>Just a thought. Is there still room in that bunker?
>
>Rick Geimer
>National Semiconductor
>rick.geimer@xxxxxxx
>
>
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