A most excellent idea!

Mark
 
> From: Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2001/08/16 Thu PM 08:14:22 EDT

> The W3C may not be the right place for that kind of effort.
> There's also OASIS.
> 
> However, why not do the same as the XML-DEV mailing list has done
> for SAX and have the Standard Template Library developed right here?
> 
> From my point-of-view there are two main efforts: EXSLT and XSLTSL
> (ouch: too many acronyms... maybe we should think of some more
> pleasant names for these?).  One obvious thing to do is to ensure that
> these two projects are well-defined and complementary (ie.
> non-overlapping):
> EXSLT should provide functionality which is not possible using XSLT
> and XSLTSL is pure XSLT.  Where the _functionality_ overlaps then
> the API should be standardised.  If we can also synchronise the
> engineering standards across the two projects, that will make the
> developer's lives easier (as you have already noted in previous
> correspondance).
> 
> Rich cross-linking between the two project's websites will ensure 
> that folks will find the pieces that they need to get their job done.
> 
> There probably also needs to be a third project.  Given the nature
> of XSLT, some kinds of functionality must be expressed in terms of 
> complete stylesheets, rather than template libraries.  In this case
> we could have a library of boiler-plate stylesheets which people
> can modifying for their own purposes.  An example might be a stylesheet
> for comparing two XML documents.  The XSLT FAQ might be a good place
> to start for this project.
> 
> My AUD0.02 worth...
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Ball
> 
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