- 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
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
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