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> > Seems to me that if you're going to have another syntactic > representation of XSL, it would make sense to use that of some other > well-known language, for example, JavaScript or Java. Probably still > pretty easy to transform, and one less syntactic flavour to learn. > Unless you know no programming language to start with. Speaking as a technical writer, moving from DTP to Web publishing means that we must concern ourselves with stylesheet languages - an additional, programming-like step in the documentation production process. Once you have written some XML, XSL is relatively easy to learn, even if some consider it "verbose" (which, paradoxically, may be the reason for it being easy to learn and read). I would hate to see XSL dragged over-proportionately towards the "programmers' end" of the Web. Of course, if by "another syntactic representation of XSL" you mean an "additional" one, you can do what you want. I just want to break a lance for us philologists whose XSL stylesheets are the only "programming" we (want to) do. Dr. Marc Beckers Documentation Consultant Software AG Uhlandstraße 12 D-64297 Darmstadt Phone +49-6151-92-1322 Fax -1612 mailto:Marc.Beckers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.softwareag.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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