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len bullard wrote: > Can anyone show that XSL (if indeed, a Turing complete language) is any easier > than Java? XSL is a programmig language and there are far more mortals > (programmers in some cases) who understand and can easily use Java than > XSL/DSSSL. I live in hope of the day when I finally see a file come out of a word processor as XML, preceded by a DTD and an XSL style sheet. Rather than just regard XSL as programming language, I would like to see it used as a common application formatting syntax, as was tried with RTF. Assuming the users are going to do pretty much whatever they want to as far as tagging is concerned (either for legacy data or ongoing), conversion from one DTD to another will always be far easier than conversion from an unstructured document to a structured one. This is particularly true when you consider in current conversions how much structure is implied from formatting characteristics (although this would presumably be substantially diminished with more structured documents). From the perspective of conversion of data (perhaps from a somewhat sloppy creation model to a more concise storage model), a parseable, reasonably regular stylesheet would seem to have advantages over Java. Also, it may ultimately be desirable to produce an XSL document from some source, interface or language that suits your individual needs better, thus XSL again behaves as an interchange format. I think this fits well with the spirit of XML/SGML. > So, one might retreat to the defense of "But it is a standard" and there one > would have a point. There are other reasons, but the one you give above is also difficult to go past :-) -- Regards Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... _______________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) email: info@a... Level 10, 91 York Street www: http://www.allette.com.au Sydney 2000 NSW Australia phone: +61 2 9262 4777 fax: +61 2 9262 4774 _______________________________________________________________ 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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