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Someone described XML as "the 40 somethings revenge".

To me, when I look at XSL I see Prolog in disguise (but then I've
written more Prolog code than most people on the planet!).

Of course whenever I've taught Prolog to traditional programmers
the non-procedural aspects are like wrenching their head off and
nailing it on the other way around - so they can see what the
world looks like when they walk away from it all the time....

Once it clicks however - the power of non-procedural approach +
recursion are to love for life.

So my thoughts are - why muck about with XSL - when you can add
a SAX interface to Prolog and drive on <g>.

Cleaner simpler is better.

DW.

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        CSS is not this small little thing for dummies which stands in
a corner of the W3C web site. It is clearer, simpler than XSL is (as
a member of W3C, I have access to XSL WG docs) and will be. It is
extremely powerful and the selector's syntax is the first thing which
is really new in the markup language world we have been exploring
during 15 years (I am of course forgetting HyTime).

        Oh, BTW, I've shown examples of XSL to newbies and SGML users
too. The result ? They hated it. Quotation : " looks like an hybrid of
Perl, csh and SGML invented by a Microsoft employee " :-)))

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