Fwd: Re: element nodes in a string?

oops, my initial reply went just to Peter.

> --- Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Use the right tool and the problem disappears.
> 
> Thank you very much, I will certainly look into your
> suggestions.
> 
> However, it is not at all immediately obvious to this
> newbie why a file that is already well-formed XML
> cannot undergo such a simple transformation using
> XSLT.  This seems to be a limitation to XSLT, not an
> inherently nonsensical thing to do.
> 
> I know other tools exist to do this; my goal is to
> learn about XML and XSLT, and this task was simply
> chosen to focus my study.  The goal is to learn
> something about XML and its uses/limitations, not to
> solve this particular text transformation problem.  
> 
> It is perfectly ok for me to take away from this the
> conclusion "XSLT is not suited to this kind of
> transformation," but I don't see how one could be
> expected to know that in the beginning.  And I don't
> think I would run into this problem if I were
> transforming to, say, latex.  It is only because HTML
> elements are interpreted as XML elements that I have
> trouble.
> 
> Can you give me a general statement of the sorts of
> applications for which XSL *is* well-suited?  It's not
> a database, but it does have several database-like
> capabilities.  It's not for text markup, though it can
> do that, sort of, sometimes...  
> 
> Chris


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