At 10:33 AM -0400 8/25/98, Scott Lawton wrote:

>But, what's the goal?  To pick the best syntax for macros, programming
>constructs and template match, or to express as much of XSL in XML as is
>reasonable?

"As much...as is reasonable"...But "reasonable" is in the eye of the
beholder.  How many mathematicians are willing to do real math in MathML?
Have you ever run into a serious program-writing interface that shielded
the programmer from the syntax of the language?  I'm not *that* optimistic
about XML's universality.  Granted, probably most any programming *can* be
expressed as an XML document, but should it?  (Can you imagine creating
a program-writing tool that kept your structured C++ code as XML?)

Dave Peterson
SGMLWorks!

davep@xxxxxxx



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