- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:51:26 +0100 (MET)
- To: "Pawson, David" <DPawson@rnib.org.uk>, "'Jason White'" <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, WAI HC Working Group <w3c-wai-hc@w3.org>
On Nov 21, 8:05am, Pawson, David wrote: > > From: Jason White [SMTP:jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU] > Jason> Is XSL likely to include any of the tree transformation > capabilities > > offered by DSSSL? > DP:Yes, most definately. I would be interested to see evidence of this definite statement. The XSL submission appears to omit all mention of the tree transformation capabilities of DSSSL, and uses only rhe flow object construction (stylesheet) stage. > > Jason: There is a need for a widely deployed mechanism that > > will allow documents conforming to XML DTD's to be transformed, in > > accordance with rules provided by the developer of the DTD, into HTML > > 4.0 > > for purposes of accessibility. Yes, there is. It appears that XSLwill not provide this capability, however. Transformation from one DTD to another turns out to be hard, if there is a requirement to generate conforming document instances and to retain semantics. If the requirement is only to generate a document that is well formed (in the XML sense) as opposed to conformant to a particular DTD, the job becomes somewhat easier. > DP: Can be done with DSSSL, or other tools. Suggest SGMLC, > Omnimark and others > are fully capable of this sort of work. Do either of these implement the tree transformation capabilities of DSSSL? -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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