Re: SGML and Forms

At 03:13 1998 03 06 -0500, Martin Bryan wrote:

>There are three things we need to do that cannot be done with the exisring
>IE4 implementation [of XSL]:
>
>1) Locally validate entered values ...

XSL is not about validation.  See XML Data.

>2) Check values against a local database/JDBC file and use the result to
>generate outputtable data. ...

While XSL may be used to accomplish some of this, I would say this
requirement goes beyond the core scope of a stylesheet language.
It may or may not be something we decide XSL should be able to do.

paul


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