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Fwd: Re: element nodes in a string?
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- Subject: Fwd: Re: [xsl] element nodes in a string?
- From: Chris Nolte <cgn7094 at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:22:58 -0700 (PDT)
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oops, my initial reply went just to Peter.
> --- Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote:
> > Use the right tool and the problem disappears.
>
> Thank you very much, I will certainly look into your
> suggestions.
>
> However, it is not at all immediately obvious to this
> newbie why a file that is already well-formed XML
> cannot undergo such a simple transformation using
> XSLT. This seems to be a limitation to XSLT, not an
> inherently nonsensical thing to do.
>
> I know other tools exist to do this; my goal is to
> learn about XML and XSLT, and this task was simply
> chosen to focus my study. The goal is to learn
> something about XML and its uses/limitations, not to
> solve this particular text transformation problem.
>
> It is perfectly ok for me to take away from this the
> conclusion "XSLT is not suited to this kind of
> transformation," but I don't see how one could be
> expected to know that in the beginning. And I don't
> think I would run into this problem if I were
> transforming to, say, latex. It is only because HTML
> elements are interpreted as XML elements that I have
> trouble.
>
> Can you give me a general statement of the sorts of
> applications for which XSL *is* well-suited? It's not
> a database, but it does have several database-like
> capabilities. It's not for text markup, though it can
> do that, sort of, sometimes...
>
> Chris
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