Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

> Is ECMAScript available in standalone form (i.e.
> without a browser)? If so, I may come to learn to love it - if not, it
> makes standalone XSL impossible which is a serious drawback.

Fair point. Check out for example 
  http://home.worldcom.ch/~jmlugrin/fesi/index.html

Also, depending on the amount of ECMAScript that XSL uses for its
expression language, it can be feasible to translate that int another
language that a particular implementation finds to be more convenient.

--
Chris


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