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[Michael Kay] >I've now implemented the same thing without XSL: I wrote an MSXML >application in Java that does a recursive walk down the document tree and >calls a registered "handler" class to process each element type. Over the years oodles of languages have been used/invented to munge SGML/XML in this fashion. Off the top of my head: Perl Python C C++ Balise Omnimark Adept Softquad Sculptor Metamorphosis tcl Scheme And now, of course, Java. Because they are all fully fledged programming languages you can do essentially *anything* with them. You could, for example, adjust the point size of your HTML headings based on the Netscape share price pulled live from www.qoute.com divided by the average seek time of your hard disk:-) However, a fully blown programming language is overkill for a lot of rendering applications. You can do a lot with FOSI. You can do a lot with the Panorama Stylesheet language. You can do a lot with XSL-Strawman. The people designing it know full well that there are limits to any declarative syntax (that is why DSSSL has Scheme built in) As Larry Wall put it - there is a niche for technologies that make it easy to go from 0 to 60 but some people need to go from 60 to 100. Sean Mc Grath sean at digitome dot com 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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