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- From: "Abhishek Srivastava" <abisheks@india.hp.com>
- To: <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:33:08 +0200
If the output of a XSL Translation is an XML document.. then another style
sheet can be written that will transform the output document back to the
source document.
However, this approach will not work if the output was not an XML document.
regards,
Abhishek.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xml-dev@xml.org [mailto:owner-xml-dev@xml.org]On Behalf Of
Robin Berjon
Sent: 02 July,Sunday, 2000 00:35
To: Ashvil
Cc: xml-dev@xml.org
Subject: Re: Can XSLT be bi-directional ? XML + XSLT -> XHTML -> XML +
(XSLT)
At 09:49 01/07/2000 -0700, Ashvil wrote:
>Can XSLT be bi-directional ? Can you get the original XML information
>from the output file by using the original XSLT file.
>
>An example would be a XML file is transformed using XSLT into XHTML. A
>User edits the data in the XHTML file (assuming no tags are harmed or
>replaced) and sends it back. Is it possible to convert the information
>in the XHTML file to it's original XML format using the original XSLT
>file only.
>
>Any thoughts ? Or is the only way creating a new XSLT file to do this
>? Or is it possible for the transformation to be bi-directional. This
>would greatly assist in building User friendly editing systems.
Chances are that in many cases the transformation back might be difficult
as some different elements in your input might map to the same element in
the output. However, if whatever is to process your output ignores
information it doesn't understand, you may be able for instance to flag
output elements with specific attributes that would guarantee a safe
mapping back. You'd still have to write another stylesheet though.
-- robin b.
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