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RE: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

• To: "'W. E. Perry'" <wperry@f...>,"'XML DEV'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:12:15 +0100
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• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> There is no question that the XSLT solution is a more 
> promising basis for interoperability than a priori 
> standardization of markup vocabulary. The residual problem 
> with XSLT for translation to "local standard" is in its 
> 'push' nature. XSLT transformations are premised on an 
> intimate understanding of the source tree and are designed to 
> render that source tree into multiple output forms--as 
> understood from a source-tree-centered perspective.

An interesting perspective, but not one I fully share.

Firstly, XSLT allows output-driven pull processing just as much as
source-driven push processing.

Secondly, the push model actually binds the stylesheet less tightly to
the structure of the source document than the pull model.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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