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Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > My bet is that the formatting part of XSL would just wither away. CSS seems, > at the moment, to have much more momentum as being "the" style sheet > language. On the other hand, XSL seems to have a fair momentum as being > "the" transformation language to use... Of course, my crystal ball doesn't > have a warranty :-) I don't think that momentum is a good argument for industry ;-) Let's face the reality : the W3C has one standard based on an existing formatting model : CSS ; it is now building a new standard based on another formatting model : XSL. I hardly see industry, which already started to work with CSS, rewrite style sheets to turn databases into XSL ! I wrote "rewrite" and not "translate" because I think that the 2 models are so different an automatic and direct translation will be difficult. Transformations ?... We have only one answer, which is our last submission to the consortium [1]. This document is not as precise and incredibly descriptive as the XSL draft is, but it is a good basis for a declarative transformation language based on CSS general syntax. > As Didier PH Martin (mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) correctly pointed out, a > pattern matching language is never sufficient by itself to do general > structural transformations. He's also correct in that it would have been > interesting to start with a procedural language (say, JavaScript) and add > pattern matching facilities to it, instead of starting with a pattern > matching language and adding procedural hooks to it. Excellent comment. This is a great suggestion for MS behaviors + DOM + [1]. This message is Cc:ed to Chris Wilson for this reason. [1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/1998/19/ </Daniel> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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