Subject: RE: More XSL Discussion
From: "James K. Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:09:32 +0800
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On Wednesday, 25 February 1998 20:12, Michael Kay [SMTP:M.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
wrote:
> Brad McCormick:
> >I cannot see what's wrong with enforcing end tags for things
> >like lists
>
> That's not the problem, Brad: it's when you have to generate the start tag
> in one XSL rule and the end tag in another.
That's right, although start tags and end tags shouldn't really be thought of
as 'generated'. Rather, they are merely indicators of the start and end of an
element. It's elements that get generated.
Fundamentally we are dealing with nodes of a tree, not a character stream.
James
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