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>The goal is of course to create something reusable, instead of everybody >writing their own favorite and incompatible processors. An other goal is to >let non-programmers take advantage of a style sheet language. An other goal >is to keep the language as declarative as possible so if you want to >effeciently re-generate PART of the output again because the source XML >document or XSL style sheet changed you can do this. > >No argument here that the current XSL processor is limited. We are working >on it (as I assume a couple of other companies). Does this answer your >question ? > My posting wasn't intended to be negative, merely to report early experience to provide feedback, which is surely necessary if these goals are to be accomplished. My expectation was that XSL would be rather like a report writer: much quicker than programming to achieve simple tasks, but limited in capability. Report writers have always had this "brick wall" problem: when a simple report gets more and more complex, you have to switch technology and start again. But my experience, which I wanted to report, was that I could define a general and reusable framework in which programming simple reports in Java was just as easy as programming them in XSL, without the brick wall problem. If XSL can be turned into a tool for non-programmers, then it will certainly serve a useful purpose. I don't think it's there yet, but I wish the endeavour well. regards, Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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