Subject: RE: Future XSLT expansion. From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:43:55 -0500 |
Hi Paul, Paul said: I have the same thing in mind right from the beginning. That's not my problem than instead of reading my letters I was bashed as a student, who has to read XPath specifation, address everything in this world with URIs and ignore the ( de-facto existing ) node-set() typecast. Didier replies: Accept my apologies. I thought that you accused me of proposing an extension when the construct in question is in fact part of the specs. I understand that maybe you are struggling with the English language and that what I read is maybe not what you intended to say. Sorry about that, but understand that I wasn't born with the innate knowledge that English is maybe not as easy for you. This said, I still do not see how we can have, let's say, an RTF document transformed into a node set in a coherent way on all XSLT engines and for all text formats. I think that this can probably be better handled by XSLT extensions per se, but probably not in a standard way. To have all possible text format to be transformed into node sets - in a coherent way - would necessitate to have this feature specified in a recommendation. And because of the huge quantity of possible text formats out there, I doubt that this is possible. What is probably possible though, is to have a standard mechanism for extension not based on Java but probably on Ecma script which is a standard. The script may return a node set and internally deal on how to create the node set. If we choose such option,We will then need to specify the normative functions added to the core ECMA script thatcan handle text processing and information set building (the latter being interfaced with the DOM already defined by a recommendation). This is not a minor task. Cheers Didier PH Martin ---------------------------------------------- Email: martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Conferences: Web Chicago(http://www.mfweb.com) XML Europe (http://www.gca.org) Book: XML Professional (http://www.wrox.com) column: Style Matters (http://www.xml.com) Products: http://www.netfolder.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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