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 I'm looking at different parsers and stylesheet and see constantly the
need for Core Flow Objects.
I'd like to understand (and could not find the answer in XSL spec) why
such as thing is needed. I see it as a barrier to adoption more than
anything else as one has to wait for Core Flow Object to be available and
supported by a parser to generate different file formats from XML.
In other words, what's the difference between those two rules (the second
probaly being faster and simpler to parse and also does not need to
contain XML-compliant HTML):
<rule>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Something</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000">
<children/>
<IMG src="logo.gif" />
<P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</rule>
<rule>
<root/>
<![CDATA[
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Something</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000">
]]>
<children/>
<![CDATA[
<P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P>
<IMG src="logo.gif">
</BODY>
</HTML>
]]>
</rule>
If the second rule is valid (I think it is), then one can create any kind
of output using CDATA sections and do away with Core Flow Objects.
Is this a good approach? Or is it the equivalent of the one-pixel GIF
hack in HTML and defeats the purpose of XSL?
Francois Belanger
Sitepak, Bringing Internet Business into Focus
http://www.sitepak.com
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