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"Matthew Sergeant (EML)" wrote: > > I might have misunderstood, but what's the point of XSL in that case > then? Why not just use perl to do s/<(\/?)catalog>/<$1table>/ ? > > (obviously you can be more complete than this, I just wanted a > simple example). That's an odd question. I don't see that there are some problems that are "too simple" for XSL. The simpler the problem, the more sense it makes to use XSL. We use XSL because it is: * standardized * declarative * optimizable * can be implemented in the heart of a repository * has many competing implementations We use Python because it is: * flexible * highly extensible * has a powerful standard library I'm told that these are reasons also to use Perl if you can stand it. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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