Re: Exploring new vocabularies for HTML

From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:50:21 -0400 To: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org Message-ID: <i7zlse4l7m.fsf@hilbert.math.albany.edu> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:33:22 GMT

Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> writes:

> At 2008-03-31 15:12 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>>There have been several attempts to provide "simplified"
>>linear non xml syntax for xslt together with pre-processors to convert
>>to the xml form, but as far as I can tell, they have never been popular
>>or widely used.
>
> On the other hand, RNC and RNG co-exist happily.

Indeed.

But for translations something like sgmlspl (perl) is (1) more
compactly written, (2) more powerful, and (3) better for writing
non-xml output formats.  So unless you're using dynamic xslt, why
bother?

                                    -- Bill