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Subject: Re: First working draft of XSL From: Mark_Overton@xxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:29:50 -0400 |
My first thought is this: Why did they not use XML for the structure of the patterns, etc. For example, Here is a rule example from the new spec <xsl:template match="book[excerpt]/author[attribute(degree)]"> ... </xsl:template> This could have been something like: <xsl:template> <match> <element type="book"> <element type="excerpt"/> <target type="author> <attribute name="degree"/> </target> </type> </match> <action> ... </action> </xsl:template> This way the xsl processor could read the stylesheet without having to parse all of this new syntax. We have a great tool in XML for representing structured data so why did we have to come up with another? Now, to read an XSL stylesheet I need to parse all of these new delimiters and more ('/' | '//' | '(' | ')' | '|' | '[' | ']' | ',' | '=' | '.' | '..' | '*' | '{' | '(' |, etc.......). All of the built in functionality of my XML parser is of no use. What a shame. -Mark Overton XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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