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At 5:50 PM +0800 11/9/98, James Clark wrote: >There needs to be a >XML representation specified because an XSL stylesheet specifies its >result as XML. Umm, I'm not sure I can agree. The XSL parsers that exist, and the standard, specify the result as XML. As far as I can see there's nothing saying the output of XSL+XML can't be an invisible set of c++ objects. I'm not being wilfull, although possibly a little dense. I think part of my problem comes from the fact that XSL as currently specified is not sufficiently powerful for layout descriptions of complex nature of the reports people are already producing with our product. Therefore, I'm acutely aware that we can't just drop an existing XSL parser into our app (assuming there was a portable C or C++ one) as we have to do a lot more processing with the styles, and extend the XSL standard right now. The other thing that I haven't probably made clear to anyone following this argument is that we are not starting from scratch. The report writer exists at present. A typical scenario is an application that creates a bunch of c++ objects to output a report. This logic is all there - what we are doing with XML is building an engine to re-create the same report objects currently constructed with application code. Our use of XML is as a saved document format, more akin to using XML for data interchange. Therefore, using XSL+XML to output 'styled XML' then parsing the latter for visual presentation or printing, is a lot more work than necessary. Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM, Software Designer, A.D. Software, Western Australia OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix & Windows PP2MFC - PowerPlant->MFC portability http://www.highway1.com.au/adsoftware/crossplatform.html 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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