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Michael Kay wrote: > When people do transformations on stylesheets, it's usually at a > fairly macroscopic level, e.g. looking at the structure of includes/imports, > or replacing global variables or templates. Encoding the outer levels of the > syntax tree in XML and the inner levels in micro-syntax seems to give a good > balance between programmatic access and human readability, but like all > compromises, it's not necessarily perfect for any single perspective. The number of active projects on sourceforge/freshmeat for implementing XPath parsers, especially with the intention of easy embedding in XSLT, vs. projects which manipulate XSL style sheets otherwise, should give a reasonably good measurement how good this compromise actually is. J.Pietschmann
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