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At 09:13 AM 5/13/99 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote: > Is there anything within XLink itself that cannot be replaced by XSLT >now that doc() and docref() have been defined? Does XLink not become >something akin to a standard set of XSLT templates used for handling URI >traversal? doc() and docref(), as well as unification with XPointer turn >XSLT into a generalized graph transformation language. Could the XLink spec >itself become an XSLT include file? Er... just everything. One of the key points of XLink is that it is _not_ bonded to a particular style sheet language. XLink is useful in contexts where XSLT is either too much or too little, and provides common vocabulary that document developers can use to describe links whatever final processing the documents may receive. If your question is rephrased: "Is there anything within XLink itself that cannot be implemented by XSLT?" Then it might be received a little more kindly by those of us who work with XML in contexts where XSL (indeed style sheets, at times) is unnecessary. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (June) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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