• From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@i...>
• To: "'Ashvil'" <ashvil@i...>, xml-dev@x...
• Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:10:50 +0100

> Can XSLT be bi-directional ? Can you get the original XML information
> from the output file by using the original XSLT file.

It is easy to show by example that there are XSLT transformations that lose
information. I can also demonstrate a transformation that doesn't lose
information, e.g. the identity transformation. Whether there is a class of
stylesheets that don't lose information and still do something useful is a
problem I leave to others...

Mike Kay

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