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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: conditionalization of XML
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:38:02AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > xmlif knows nothing about the XML structure of the document. All it `sees' > > is the processing instructions what is otherwise, from its point of view, > > a featureless byte stream. > > Then there is no good reason to implement it in an XML toolkit, really. > Using sed sounds the right tool for the job. You seem to be missing the point, here. I don't want to write ad-hoc sed scripts every time I want to conditionalize a document, any more than I want to write a single-use XSLT hack every time I want to conditionalize a document. Such approaches could only appeal to someone who is in love with XSLT or sed. I'm not. I want a simple tool that I can re-use. Without having to edit my documents every time I want to generate a different variant. Without constantly writing custom stylesheets. I have work to get done! I tried the politically correct XML-purist approach. It sucked. There are weaknesses in XSLT 1.0 that make it unsuitable for this job -- specifically the fact that a stylesheet can't see the input doctype. So I've written a tool that throws away that whole level of structure and gets the job done. I'd sure like to develop a better solution, but you seem to be intent on denying there is a problem. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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