- From: Daniel Glazman <Daniel.Glazman@der.edfgdf.fr>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:04:30 +0100 (MET)
- To: lehors@us.ibm.com (Arnaud Le Hors)
- Cc: Daniel.Glazman@der.edf.fr, www-dom@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> May I point out that, as a matter of fact, the DOM is already defined in > XML? As described in the Production Notes [1], the spec (HTML), the IDL > definition, the Java and ECMAScript bindings are generated from a single > XML source document. Yes, and this is an excellent starting point. But things stop on the textual description. We would like to see a XSLT solution for each binding. > For historical reasons, this is not achieved with XSL, but I would > expect this to be possible. The DOM WG has actually discussed several > times the idea of switching to XSLT, the only reason we haven't done so > is a lack of resources. A lot of time has been spent on developing the > tools we currently use and, while admittedly it would be very neat to > do, we just can't afford doing so. Arnaud, who's that "we" ? IMHO the cost of such an extension is worth doing it, if compared to the possible benefits. > Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology Group BTW, how are things going ?-) Correctly installed ? </Daniel>
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