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Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The point bellow is the key I feel to the issues being presented. We are > getting dangerously close to persuing marketing Labelling things accurately is not "marketing." XSL is being used widely for transformations. The specification provides a back-door for allowing it to be used that way. Thousands of people around the world use it that way. All we are asking is to call a spade a spade. > rather than issues of a > style language, chief proponents of the split being a self confessed > entreprneur, and a company with a completed transformation parser. Funny how you forgot the educators, consultants and authors who have said the same thing. > As I understand it, DSSSL expresses both transformation and flow objects > (equiv. formatting objects). Would DSSSL users appreciate the split of > these? DSSSL is already split into a transformation and a style language. It was like that from day one. They both have official names and it is completely legal to implement one without the other. (not the case with XSL) The nature of the style and transformation languages are radically different from the split we are proposing, however. The DSSSL "style language" is sufficiently powerful to be much like the XSL "transformation language." When and if DSSSL is revised I strongly suspect that the "style language" will be split again. We understand these issues much better today than we did years ago. I expect that it was James Clark's *experience with* the DSSSL style language applied as a transformation language that allowed James Clark to build the XSL transformation language so cleanly. Now we just need to get the terminology straight. > It is also the stated goal of the XSL WG to achieve for XML a style > language at least as expressive as DSSSL and CSS... why should we have less > than that for XSL? Nobody has proposed that XSL should be less powerful than it is projected to be. This is a red herring. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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