Transforming the XSL-List archive into RSS 1.0

>From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jimbolist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Transforming the XSL-List archive into RSS 1.0
>Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:41:54 -0400
>
>I subscribe to the XSL digest; however, I often find that there are a
>lot of messages that I ignore.  Since I use dial-up, the wasted
>bandwidth contributes to a significant wait.
>
>Furthermore I'm relatively new to XSL, so I decided to design a
>stylesheet to transform the XSL-List archives into an RSS 1.0 file of
>the last 12 or so hours (no descriptions; just titles and links in
>sequential order by date) that I can automate.  The project would be
>educational as well as useful, I figure.
>
>However, when I looked at the source of the list, I noticed that the
>pages are served as the SGML-flavor of HTML.  :-(  XSL can't really work
>with this because of the unbalanced tags (<li>, <br>, etcetera).
>However, the pages do validate as HTML 4.01 Strict.  How do I work
>around the unfortunate format and convert it to sensible XML?
>
>If there is no way, can I request that the list change the archives to
>XHTML (or offer the XML-based format as an alternative)?
>
>(Note that I'm using Saxon 7.6.)
>
>--
>Jimmy Cerra
>
>] "XML is just syntax, and you can therefore
>]  use it any way you like." - Michael Kay



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