- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:15:09 -0800
- To: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Not sure how you concluded that it's a "half way house" between xslt and javascript. I'd better describe XBL as follows: Given that you have A) A document markup tree using a certain XML vocabulary B) You have the desire to associate certain forms of behavior to that markup tree -- be that styling or interaction behavior in response to events, C) That you have authored such styling via CSS and such event handlers as JavaScript, then XBL gives you a mechanism of declaring the association between (A) and (C) Henry S. Thompson writes: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > XBL2 [1] might be described (?) as a halfway house between heavy-duty > Javascript-based munging of a document tree, and XSLT-based arbtrary > transformation. It seems to me it might be interestingly > interconnnected both with the TAG's "least power" finding (past) [2] and > with the XML functions issue (future) [3] . . . > > ht > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/ > [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html > [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#xmlFunctions-34 > - -- > Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh > Half-time member of W3C Team > 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFvgh9kjnJixAXWBoRAthAAJ4yQ+6Sk4yATJMvRD5gZsWFhR8pYgCeOtdq > JxaAuFPQI5rCUTQjDZZ+eXA= > =/1Yf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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