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Subject: How powerful is this XSLT?
From: Jeff Lansing <jeff@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 09:29:03 -0800

In response to the question " How powerful is this XSLT?" David Carlisle
writes:

> it's Turing complete (bar memory limits) so you could in principle
code
> a simulation of a JVM and then run the xt classes in saxon, or vice
> versa. Might not be particularly fast though.

Not quite. For we would still have to write the XSL for whatever it was
that we were trying to accomplish in the first place. And it's the
possiblity
of *that* that the question seems to be addressing.
Jeff


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