RE: Is XHTML a dead end?

Hi Eric,

Eric said:
I am not sure I understand what kind of processing you want to make,
however if for instance, I had to transform a document with a reference
to a HLink mapping into the same document using XLink, I would probably
follow an approach a la Schematron and write a stylesheet to generate a
stylesheet to do the transformation (the exercise seems pretty trivial).

Didier replies:
I would probably would do that myself but now we end up with something
more complex then SGML architectural forms. Also, I didn't achieve the
goal to write a generic linking stylesheet that I can re-use. Thus, we
achieved something less useful than SGML+DSSSL. Is this what we call
entropy? Degradation of the matter with time :-)

Why can't we write a style sheet like that

<template match="@href" > or <template match="@xlink:href">
....
</template>

and use it in different contexts by importing or including it in other
stylesheets. 
 

Cheers
Didier PH Martin