Re: XSL - Transforming 2 XSL stylesheets from 1 XML fi

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Subject: Re: XSL - Transforming 2 XSL stylesheets from 1 XML file
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 11:57:20 -0400

At 05:47 AM 5/6/2005, David wrote:

  If the PI is inadequate, can anyone else come up with an alternative?
  Or perhaps a list of use cases that a solution should meet?

One alternative would be to accept that sending XML over the wire to be
styled on the client with a lightweight styling and transformation
language has not been a universally popular proposal, so to abandon the
XML experiment and revert back to using full SGML on a back end server
system and using dsssl rather than its lightweight younger sibling, XSL
to transform the in house semantically rich markup down to presentation
oriented formats such as html 2 and postscript and sens that over the
wire to be displayed on clients that don't need (and don't have) much
processing capability.

Yeah, that's one alternative. SGML forever!

Another is to encourage browser vendors to push their own proprietary frameworks further. I keep thinking that XUL and XAML should address this space, although I haven't had time to investigate the possibilities and see how close they are to doing so. While I know that here we're very far from getting "standards", the fact is that sometimes a proprietary implementation of something is necessary to get the idea out into the marketplace to demonstrate its usefulness.

An obvious use case is to allow a client to switch stylesheets at the user's request, the way Softquad Panorama used to do (that was nice, and useful).

(As I recall, some smart person asked about this very issue from the floor on the last day of the XSLT-UK conference back in 2001 ... and she didn't get an answer.)

Cheers,
Wendell

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Re: XSL - Transforming 2 XSL stylesheets from 1 XML file, (continued)
- Aron Bock - 5 May 2005 21:48:09 -0000
- Pawson, David - 6 May 2005 09:39:16 -0000
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    - Colin Paul Adams - 6 May 2005 16:44:24 -0000
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