Re: [xsl] use cases for d-o-e

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:48 AM +0100 1/10/02, Joerg Pietschmann wrote:
> Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  I'm not sure about ASP, but PHP can be written in pure XHTML.
>
> You are right, it *can* be written in pure XHTML, but there is
> nothing that *forces* PHP scripts to be XHTML:
>  <a href="<?php echo "stuff.html";?>">
> is a valid PHP code snippet, and there has been inquiries about
> how to generate similar constructs in XSLT on this list.

My main point is that since PHP can be written in pure XHTML, PHP is 
not a sufficient justification for d-o-e.
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