Re: sample file

[Chuck Robey <chuckr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, G. Ken Holman wrote:

> At 99/06/05 00:27 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> >I'm looking for one where the xml file is 1-5 pages, and the xsl file is
> >also 1-5 pages, and there are no custom extensions.  If there is an
> >accompanying output file, I'll be in 7th heaven.  
> 
> Part of my objective of writing the article at:
> 
>   http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/1999/04/holman/xsl.html
> 
> was to provide working examples.  You can obtain the following files
> through links in the article:
> 
> Size     Date    Time  File
> 88 979  99-04-22  13:21 gkh-19990418.htm     - produced using XT
> 41 143  99-04-22  13:20 gkh-19990418.xml     - raw XML - viewable with IE5
>  2 113  99-04-22  12:52 xmlcom.dtd           - supporting DTD
> 16 728  99-04-22  13:12 xmlcom.xsl           - W3C 1998-12-16 XSL
> 18 878  99-04-22  13:36 xmlcom.msxsl         - IE5 XSL
> 
> Note that the HTML above was supplied to XML.com and was incorporated into
> their online publishing system as a chain of 4 chunks ... but the complete
> HTML file is available (as are all the files above) through links in the
> sidebars.
> 
> >I don't want or care
> >about the tool that produces it.
> 
> Unfortunately, the article was completed 3 days before the most recent
> version of XSL was released, so the W3C version of XSL complies only with
> last December's revision.
> 
> I hope you find these of some help.

Yes, thanks.  I've just gone from the "can this toolset do what I want"
to the "how to do it best" phase, so I still have much to learn, but I'm
getting more enthusiastic as I go.

I would ask one question tho; I've seen much criticism of xsl, some
saying that xsl does nothing that can't be done otherwise.  This seems
to be false for me.  My application, where I need to translate docs
incoming with xml markup to either html or groff markup, can't be done
using anything besides xslt.  Html can be produced (and often is)
without xsl, but I don't see any other way to add groff markup and
remove the original.

Am I wrong?

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