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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:17, David Carlisle wrote: > > XSLT is pretty much perfect for cases where you can't be bothered to do > more than map existing structures to XML. > > I don't know what you mean here. If I write a document in docbook, or > xmlspec, and use xslt to generate html. (which is my normal mode of > operation) in what way "cant't I be bothered to do more than map > existing structures to XML."? > You obviously have something in mind here, but I have no idea what. > My favorite horrid but true example is the database export I had to handle that looked like: 12, 14, 7, green, red, blue, widget, frammis, widget, Peoria, Ketchikan, Boise Rather than 12, green, widget, Peoria, etc. It matched the internal data structure. It took something that could easily have been merely styled and forced an ugly transformation. Actually, this example may be too horrid. It was supposed to be the general export for a document management system, and even RDBMS folks trying to use it would have been cussing it up and down. (or side to side I guess.) Frank
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