Subject: Re: [xsl] killing xslt From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:20:50 +0100 |
I always had the impression that in the field of publishing on the web, in most cases it would be easier to create some good old HTML files from any XML data, than rely on the user's browser to correctly transform the XML into something viewable. Replace "XML" by "SGML" in the above and that was a description of 1990's electronic publishing. The downside (in some scenarios) of that is that the end user gets a "dumbed down" presentation oriented html rendition of the document instead of the real thing. The idea of SGML-online (which later picked up the snappier acronym "XML") was to have a light weight profile of SGML that you could send out directly over the web with a lightweight profile of the DSSSL style language which would transform the SGML on the client. That profile of DSSSL also had an early decision to use XML syntax (instead of the lisp syntax used by dsssl) and finally got called XSLT (and doesn't resemble DSSSL that much really) David -- The LaTeX Companion http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0201362996 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201362996/202-7257897-0619804 ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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