Re: alternating tags in a list?

Hi.

I agree whole heartedly. Extrapolating the arguement of we don't need to
impliment that in XSL because you can do it with DOM elsewhere would
quickly paint XSL into a corner considering that we can do everything that
XSL will do with the DOM elsewhere. In which case why do we need XSL.

"We can do it with the DOM elsewhere" isn't isn't a valid arguement for not
doing something in XSL. The point of XSL should surely be that it be an
ideal language for transforming and rendering XML, if you point to
something else to use instead then you've shot XSL in the head.

Now I am in favour of XSL, I am in favour of finding solutions for XSL
performing tasks like alternating tags etc.

I am also in favour of allowing access to ECMAScript where available, I
don't see why developers should be prohibited from esaping to ECMAScript if
it's their prefered option because of a virtuous ideal. This also allows
people to approach the learning curve of XSL in a gentler manner when
comming from procedural backgrounds.

I start to get concerned with arguements of purity as I don't see issue
such as these as either or... I tend to think why not both? Just because I
won't use one doesn't mean you shouldn't.

Cheers
     Guy.





xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/15/98 12:08:14 PM

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Subject:  Re: alternating tags in a list?




Paul Prescod said:
>
[SNIP]
   There are still plenty of browsers out there that don't support the
DOM, not to mention that some of us may actually want to target print
media, or more static online (such as PDF) formats.  Do you really want
to eliminate any chance of XSL being a decent solution in these areas?
   I'm not necessarily saying that Javascript-in-XSL is the way to go,
but saying that XSL doesn't need to be able to handle more complicated
tasks like this just because browsers support the DOM doesn't seem
like much of a solution, either.
-Brandon :)

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