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Subject: RE: Meta XSL
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:03:41 -0500

Toivo Lainevool wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to use XSL to generate an XSL stylesheet.  I call
> this a meta-XSL stylesheet. I thought that since XSL is valid XML,
> this should be possible, but I am having one small
> problem.  If I have a meta-XSL file that looks like this:
>
> <meta-xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="foo"
>                 xmlns:meta-xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
> result-ns="">
> <meta-xsl:template match='/'>
>    <xsl:stylesheet>
>    <html><body>test</body></html>
>    </xsl:stylesheet>
> </meta-xsl:template>
> </meta-xsl:stylesheet>
>
	Have you tried:

<xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet">
<xsl:attribute name="xmlns:xsl">http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl</xsl:attribute>
... stuff goes here ...
</xsl:element>

>
> As a side note, it is interesting to think about trying to be able to
> produce _any_ valid XML document via XSL, and this case being the
> proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem for XSL.
>
	All this proves is that given is specific allotment of time, you have not
found a successful solution to a particular problem :-)

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net


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