[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date]

Re: Converting MS-XSLT to real XSL


Subject: Re: Converting MS-XSLT to real XSL
From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 12:55:25 -0600

Kay Michael wrote:
> 
> I think it's probably quite easy to do a 95% job; though not in pure XSL,
> because you have to parse the expressions and patterns. Doing the last 5%,
> e.g. handling the semantic differences in the definition of the "="
> operator, might be difficult.

There are other XPath difficulties. MSXSL does funny things with text().
And it counts starting at 0. These would be quite difficult to fix using
an XSLT stylesheet.

 Paul Prescod


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list



Current Thread
Keywords