Subject: Re: Newbie question about latest XSL spec.
From: Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:32:06 -0500 (EST)
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[David LeBlanc]
> I could relate to conditionals in XSL if they have the same intended
> usage as #ifdef, #ifndef etc in C/C++. As a replacement for
> programming logic, it seems pointless and off purpose, especially
> considering that an interface to one of the platform independent
> unicode scripting languages such as javascript, tcl and soon perl.
If any of those scripting languages can return nodes, then fine, but I
need to be able to conditionally create nodes. AFAIK, those scripting
languages can only help me get strings, and it doesn't seem tenable to
have to create markup-looking strings in the scripting language and
then ask the processor to re-parse those in context.
-Chris
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