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Re: Re: sgml vs xml
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:41:30AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> | I was unaware you could use DSSSL with XML. Is the converse true - can
> | you use XSL with SGML?
>
> There's no technical reason why you couldn't. XSL is a tree-to-tree
> transformation language and SGML documents are certainly trees. But I
> don't know of any XSLT processor that has a general-purpose SGML
> parser on the front end. I think xsltproc has some heuristics for
> accepting (some?) DocBook SGML documents.
Hum, no don't use that, it's really broken. It may work for some
really simple document but will break for anything non-trivial. You
need a real SGML parser to handle SGML. It's better to convert the
SGML documents to XML with an SGML tool and then process that XML.
Daniel
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