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Dimitre,
Thanks for replying to my remarks. I certainly did not mean to say anything that would discourage you from continuing to do what you're doing.... :-> At 02:40 AM 12/29/01, you wrote: The perception of "elegance" has much to do with change of culture. What was thought I acknowledge this, and in fact consider it to be an essential feature of what makes all this worth the work -- not only does technology evolve, but so does the context of its use -- and so, within that context, does what is "elegant". It is easy for something non-traditional to be labeled "non-elegant". A year ago That just goes to show, doesn't it? It is unacceptable to state that we should not use the language for things it was Thanks for that corrective. I didn't mean to say that we shouldn't use the language for things it wasn't designed for. If it works, who am I to complain? Nor did I mean to suggest that such-and-such an approach isn't (or is) allowed at all. But I did mean to draw attention to the fact (and on this list it's easy to forget) *even XSLT* should not always be taken to be a given, that the "best" solution to a problem (most "elegant") is to be found in its true context, not in its presumed context, and that given that context -- which only he knows in detail -- Mike might think about non-XSLT solutions to his problem. In the meantime, I am confident that we will continue to see more stretching and redrawing of boundaries. This is a good thing. (Along those lines, I even myself tried out a quick shot at a solution -- much like Trevor's, as it happened -- to Mike's challenge. I didn't get far with it because I didn't want to insist on the dependencies it had to introduce.) Yet I also believe that XSLT itself is best served (here meaning best in the larger context) when we balance our interest in innovative approaches to XSLT with our being willing to focus on problems in their own proper local contexts, to determine the best way to solve them there -- precisely *because* what is "best" in any given case is not an absolute dictated by a pre-established religious creed (much as I like my own). Keep it coming! Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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