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From: David Brownell <david-b@p...> > "XSL [expletive deleted] Less" for many folk We need a stylesheet language whose interactions are clear enough that it is possible to cut and paste portions of the stylesheet along with portions of the document. Of course, you can take any language and parse it and figure out which pieces go with which, though this is often only in the context of a single instance: trying to do this in JavaScript seems a nightmare to me, and probably impossible. XSLT may make this problem tractable: like LISP (especially Scheme and DSSSL) it doesnt distinguish data and program syntactically, it is functional and side-effect-free, yet it is more-or-less declarative like CSS with the ability to name any level of structure. I think XSL's excitingness lies in this area more than any other: it gives a much better form to allow automated manipulation of stylesheets. XSL has a long way to go before it can compete with universal tools like OmniMark or Perl: it will need a lot better handling of input and output streams and data string manipulation: XSLT does not provide these and I doubt if XSLStyle will either. But OmniMark and Perl have side-effects and are not declarative (event-driven != declarative), so XSL does create a new kind of application. Rick Jelliffe 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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