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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 18:32 -0800, Alex Clark wrote: [...] > It seems to me that a natural progression is to extend XSLT from generally > one input (XML) and one output (XML, HTML, etc) to include numerous input > sources of varying types to numerous output targets. This was a part of the XSLT 2.0 work -- XSLT 1 already supported multiple XML inputs via the document() function, as well as text files, and XSLT 2 adds the idea that any data source that can be represented in terms of a shared data model can be processed by XSLT 2 and XQuery. On the other hand, we (W3C) did not define explicit places to put, say, SQL or SPARQL or other syntax to configure such inputs; for my own part I'd be supportive of such an idea. Outside W3C, such things can be done by groups of people -- e.g. exslt.org -- and maybe even brought to W3C for standardization. Within W3C, it's also possible, if at least two Member organizations are sufficiently interested, to start a new "incubator group" to investigate such things. Having said all that, I also wonder whether XQuery isn't a better starting-point for mashups... not because of differences in power of the languages, but because of different focus of implementations. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
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