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Subject: Lions and Tigers and Scripting - Oh My! From: David LeBlanc <whisper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 23:38:53 -0800 |
Well, I certainly walked into the scripting thing with my eyes closed! Now that i've read the xsl archive, I can see how controversial it was! I noticed only two things really: The W3C is was mis-characterized imho. I think the founders of W3C are out to do a good thing and have taken on commercial partners as a necessary evil. If they (the corporations) where not part of the process, I think the web whould be far more chaotic. And, having been around the corporate world, I can imagine the petty bickering, back stabbing politics and jockeying for position that occurs. I'd bet if they could have done it any other way, they whould have. It was mentioned that maybe xsl is trying to do more then it ought - is it a style specificatin notation, or a transformation notation (I'm deliberately avoiding the word language here)? Maybe, like XPointer and XLink, Xsl ought to split into XStyle and Xtransform and let each of those specs focus on a single strength. I guess the real bad thing is that the xsl WG having vacated leadership in this, what will tend to happen are ad-hoc addons (vb by Microsoft for instance) that will do the things that the lack of a formal scripting language extension (open or closed) leaves open. Sincerely, Dave LeBlanc XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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