- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:56:38 +0100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:46:44 +0100, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > But your reply, which is echoed in the spec., confuses me. When I > point my browser at an XML document with an <?xml-stylesheet. . .?> > PI, e.g. [1], in what sense does anything "alter the underlying DOM"? > > The XML DOM is left alone, an new HTML DOM is built, and rendered. > > XSLT is spec'd to produce a new, distinct result tree, certainly not > to modify its input. . . XSLT: Original DOM -> XSLT -> New DOM XBL: Original DOM XBL only affects the rendering tree (where I mean rendering in a media-neutral way) while the DOM stays the same. It also has the features T.V Raman mentioned such as binding behaviors to an element. > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/structures.xml -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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