- From: Barry van Oven <bvoven@baan.nl>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 08:51:58 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Daniel Koger wrote: "I fail to see what is inherently complex about XSL. It basically does one of two things with an element or object. It either applies a programmatic response, or affects a style change. Complex?" My point exactly! The best thing about XSL is, that you need only one language for these two things, instead of a combination of a stylesheet language (CSS), an interface language (DOM), and a programming/scripting language (JavaScript, C++, Java, etc.). Looking at things that way, I can only say that XSL is here to simplify and compress things. Imagine XQL providing the SQL variant to XML, XLink and XPointer replacing, enhancing, and extending simple hypertext languages, yet being far more simple than complicated languages such as HyTime. The combination of XML, XSL, XQL, XPointer, and XLink harnesses and replaces the power of a multitude of both simple and complicated languages, yet maintains an overall structural unity by providing their authors with one syntactic interface. Barry
Received on Thursday, 27 May 1999 02:53:01 UTC