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Abhishek Srivastava wrote > > If the output of a XSL Translation is an XML document.. > then another style > sheet can be written that will transform the output > document back to the > source document. > I think this is the preferred solution that this group is leaning towards. And it would resolve my current problem. However, I see an issue with making two stylesheets, every time I want the users to edit the XML data. More work, sigh ! I was thinking of an extended XSLT processor that would automatically add more information to the resultant tree (eg. Back pointers to the original tree), so that it could apply the reverse transformation. Something like this. Extended Extended XSLT XSLT XML tree ---> XHTML tree ----> (Users edit ---> XML tree (with data only (with information no tree updated for reverse manipulation data) transformation) is allowed) I am still interested in what information would the extended XSLT need to store for the reverse transformation to occur. I think this would be important for a read-write web especially when languages like SVG become popular. Regards, Ashvil *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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