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Re: The remarkable similarities between XSLT and Flex/Lex

• From: Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:39:41 +0100

On 24/06/2022 12:00, Dave Pawson wrote:
...

You surprise me Michael. I thought James was a single author behind
both of those (at least 1.0).

From http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/norway/history.html [1], the DSSSL
committee started in 1988 and there was a Draft International Standard
in 1991 before James Clark joined in 1992.

My understanding is that DSSSL changed a whole lot between the first DIS
and DSSSL as we know/knew it, but there was definitely people, not just
person, involved.  As there would have been for XSLT.  XPath 1.0 [2] was
the joint work of the XSL and XLink WGs and has two editors: James Clark
and Steve DeRose.

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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Skerries, Ireland
tgraham@antenna.co.jp

[1] From http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/norway/dsssl.html,
    from http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116

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