Re: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0 -- Agenda item?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:46:44 +0100, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>  
wrote:
> But your reply, which is echoed in the spec., confuses me.  When I
> point my browser at an XML document with an <?xml-stylesheet. . .?>
> PI, e.g. [1], in what sense does anything "alter the underlying DOM"?
>
> The XML DOM is left alone, an new HTML DOM is built, and rendered.
>
> XSLT is spec'd to produce a new, distinct result tree, certainly not
> to modify its input. . .

XSLT:

   Original DOM -> XSLT -> New DOM

XBL:

   Original DOM

XBL only affects the rendering tree (where I mean rendering in a  
media-neutral way) while the DOM stays the same. It also has the features  
T.V Raman mentioned such as binding behaviors to an element.


> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/structures.xml


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Monday, 29 January 2007 16:57:06 UTC