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to the earlier: >>My past personal experience has been that there isn't necessarily a >>divergence between simplicity and power Chris von See replied: >I agree. >I would want to see a VERY convincing argument that justified increased >complexity in XSL. So would I! The question: is an XML-based syntax for patterns more or less complex than the current working draft? And, complex for which audience? And, let's be careful to distinguish "complex" from "takes longer to type". Especially given that tags in the "action" area (e.g. <HTML><HEAD>...) are literal, I think it would be really nice for tags in the match part to be literal. Also, patterns like "book[excerpt]/author[attribute(degree)]" have hidden information; it's not at all clear that excerpt and author are siblings. Finally, patterns-as-XML is easier in the following sense: they can be edited directly by all XML tools. Isn't that a big win? Scott XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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