Stefan Trcek wrote:
>
> Good idea! This would get me back to XSL.
> I started with XSL (the former 24 pages spec), because it was
> declarative and simple. I stopped it, because it focused in a
> shortsighted way to formatting only (and thus the tools do so too).
>
> This new approach can draw the line between data transformation
> (general) and formatting (one special backend feeding the HTML and
> RTF processors).
Actually, the new spec. is nicely divided along those lines already. I am
asking for a procedural split, not a logical one. The logical split has
already been done (to the credit of the working group). Now we just have
to give it its own WD, its own WG etc.
Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
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