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'Many a true word spoken in jest.' Many a 'strawman' idea being found to be just what was needed. Best regards --- Stephen D Green On 12 April 2010 21:32, Norman Gray <norman@a...> wrote: > > On 2010 Apr 12, at 21:16, Stephen Green wrote: > >> E.g. XSLT declarative stylesheets >> can do so much because the XSLT processor and the >> expressiveness of the XSLT language are so powerful that the >> stylesheet is practically 'king'. > > Eh? > > I still very strongly suspect that XSLT was a James Clark joke. After being told that DSSSL would never take off because it had the wrong shape of brackets, is it not the case that he came back with a spoof mini-subset of it which had the right brackets, but which was received with such rapturous acclaim that he never had the heart to confess it was intended as a gag. > > No? > > > > All the best, > > Norman > > > -- > Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk > >
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