Re: XSL and entities

At 10:40 AM -0500 9/19/98, Paul Prescod wrote:
are you using? This does not look right.
>
>Nevertheless, you should know that you are probably doomed to failure
>using XSL out-of-the-box as a generic XML->foo conversion tool. That's not
>what it is meant to do and XSL processors do not support it well. Half of
>the messages in this fora are from people trying to do that and finding it
>difficult or impossible.
>

Which begs the question: should there be some other technology which does
allow fairly arbitrary conversions from XML->foo? Something easier than
writing a Java program on top of SAX?  What would such a thing look like?
I have a suspicion the pattern matching might look a lot like XSL, but the
output flow objects would be very different.


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