> In what sense is using Python's built-in, carefully designed 
> XML toolkit "rolling your own"?

> I don't think of Omnimark as high-level. I think of it as 
> ultra low-level.

OK, now we're getting somewhere.  Slipping in a reply to another message,
I'm quite familiar with some of the web pages (e.g.
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ & http://www.finetuning.com/) that provide
lists of (mostly SGML) transformation tools.  But they don't cover things
like "Python's XML toolkit is much higher level than OmniMark"; I would have
expected the opposite.  I've been watching Python from afar for quite
awhile; maybe it's time to download it.  (I suspect that would be easier for
me than DSSSL.)

...

In case the list moderator is suspicious: Maybe I should have called this
thread "short-term alternatives to XSL". I'm a big supporter of XSL -- I
just need something more powerful than the current working draft.  Still, I
can take this thread off list if that's preferred.

Any more thoughts on the "highest level" alternative to XSL?

Scott


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