Re: XSL

[Bruno Vernier <vernier@vc.bc.ca>]

On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 08:41:23PM -0500, Doug Loss wrote:

>Have you looked at the specification for XSL, the Extensible Style
>Language that's supposed to go with XML?  In looking through it I noticed
>that it included a construct "xsl:for-each" for looping, a construct
>"xsl:if" for conditionals, and a construct "xsl:choose" for selecting one
>from a number of possibilities.  I've purposely refrained from talking about
>these as commands in a programming language, but they are suggestive of one.
>Might XSL be useful in specifying some of the things you're doing through
>your <rpc></rpc> tag in EDUML?  I freely admit to talking past my
>understanding here.  I'm curious to here your take on XSL.


I am very much looking forward to XSL.  It is still very much a work in
progress though. The way I understand it is that XSL will be a relatively
easy way to filter XML data not just for rendering reports or courseware or
quizzes on browsers, but for converting into various formats for use by
other programs.

One reason XSL will be desirable is that one only needs to understand the
XML grammar in order to use XSL; it will look and feel just like basic XML;
yet one more of these XML extensions which look and feel like XML (which
means one less thing to learn from scratch!)

Bruno