Subject: Extensible SL From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:34:52 -0400 |
I realize that it's an odd (some might even say 'dumb') question, but: How is 'Extensible' Style Language extensible? I'm aware that section 14 of the XSLT draft covers extension elements and extension functions, but they seem to be given grudgingly, with large warnings in the introduction. It doesn't seem that extensibility is a core philosophical value of the process that has given us XSLT and XSL itself - rather, the determining factors appear to be the use of XML and the model of transforming a source tree into a result tree (of formatting objects or not.) I doubt that there's much point in renaming XSL at this point, or that major changes to its architecture are likely, but it does seem oddly misnamed, to say the least. XLink, XPointer, and XPath all appear to have avoided this issue - their initial Xs appear to stand only for XML. I guess a more interesting question might ask what a genuinely 'extensible' style language might in fact look like and how that extensibility might be provided. Or maybe I've just had too much coffee. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer (2nd Ed - September) Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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