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RE: Re: XInclude
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:13:49 +0100
- Subject: RE: Re: [xsl] XInclude
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> Yes, of course one can implement Xinclude using the facilities
> in XSLT. That is all well and good. However, if the W3C is
> going to have a standard called xinclude you would expect tools
> that process xml to at least provide the option of recognizing
> it.
XSLT is a component that transforms input trees to create result trees.
XInclude is another component that transforms input trees to create
result trees. The question of how such components are assembled into an
application is the subject of XML Pipeline. XSLT itself should not
attempt to define the processing pipeline.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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