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> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Prescod [SMTP:paul@p...] > > "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. > I guess what I should have said was "Why not use CSS then". If we're talking about an XSL that doesn't do transformations then it's CSS you should use. The perl example I guess was a bad idea, but I just meant what we seemed to be talking about was tag matching/replacing with programmability. CSS2 covers that. > I'm told that these are reasons also to use Perl if you can stand it. > You missed a smiley there I assume. Matt. 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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