RE: XSL and entities

Because this is the XSL list are we ignoring DSSSL for doing 'fairly arbitrary 
conversions'? Perhaps this option fails on the 'something easier than writing a 
java program on to of SAX' requirement, but I thought that conversions were one 
of the major reasons for being of DSSSL.

And: maybe I'm mis-understanding, missing a point or merely showing my 
ignorance, but it seems that one arbitrary conversion that would be (more than) 
useful, particularly in these early and potentially very rambunctious stages of 
change, would be XML to HTML. If XSL is not at least relatively pliable in this 
regard maybe it's going to have some major problems on the adoption front. 
Practicality vs. conceptual purity, the old same song.

	...edN

On Saturday, September 19, 1998 4:04 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold 
[SMTP:elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> At 10:40 AM -0500 9/19/98, Paul Prescod wrote:
> are you using? This does not look right.
> >
> >Nevertheless, you should know that you are probably doomed to failure
> >using XSL out-of-the-box as a generic XML->foo conversion tool. That's not
> >what it is meant to do and XSL processors do not support it well. Half of
> >the messages in this fora are from people trying to do that and finding it
> >difficult or impossible.
> >
>
> Which begs the question: should there be some other technology which does
> allow fairly arbitrary conversions from XML->foo? Something easier than
> writing a Java program on top of SAX?  What would such a thing look like?
> I have a suspicion the pattern matching might look a lot like XSL, but the
> output flow objects would be very different.
>
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