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Subject: RE: Style vs. transformation From: Rob McDougall <RMcDouga@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:55:38 -0500 |
The argument against this is that a stylesheet user wants guarantees that a script that they write will be usable on a variety of platforms and under a variety of different XSL processors. I think that at a minimum, the processor must implement ECMAScript to be compliant. I have no problem if the vendor wants to extend that to include other scripting languages. Rob >-----Original Message----- >From: Tony Stewart [SMTP:tony.stewart@xxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 10:50 AM >To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: Style vs. transformation > >Sean McGrath wrote: > >"Is XSL inextricably linked to JavaScript as it scripting environment? >If I implemented XSL with Python as its expression language would I be >cast into utter darkness..." > >This is an issue we too care about (a lot). I'm hoping that the standard >can be broadened (and made more generic and therefore more useful) by >specifying a mechanism for shelling out to _any_ scripting language or >available programming interface, not just JavaScript. I'll admit that if >we must choose just one escape then JavaScript is a pretty good choice >(perhaps the best), but it's not a panacea and there's no reason to >handcuff ourselves to just one. Especially considering how quickly >things change. Do we really want to rewrite the standard next year when >something better than JavaScript comes along? > >Tony > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Tony Stewart >RivCom >"Publishing Structured Information" >www.rivcom.com >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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