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Hi, I've been reading through the XSL spec and I noticed that it mentions that XSL could be used as an XML transformation mechanism as the result tree need not use the formatting vocabulary. Does this mean that its possible to use XSL to do transformation from one XML document type to another? If so are there any gotchas that I should be concerned with? I've been casting about for a decent mechanism and was all set today to begin designing a custom system to do my job, albeit with much of the rules defined by an(other) XML document type. Then I read the XSL spec again and thought that perhaps I could get the transformation 'for free' as much of the transformation stuff I need to do (element renaming, attribute/element conversions,etc) seems to be possible. I'm aware that architectural forms offers some of this (actually I'm doing a many DTD, SGML -> single DTD XML conversion, so originally looked at SGML architectures) but I'm unclear as to how contentious or well defined this is for XML (as opposed to SGML). I'd really appreciate any comments people care to make. I could provide some more details if necessary. Ideally I want a relatively low maintenance solution. I'm prepared to do a custom implementation but don't want to miss the boat and find out I've reinvented the wheel (apologies for mixed metaphor ;). L. 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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