Re: [xml-dev] RE: Declarative programming requires a different mindset

[ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

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Norman Gray writes:

> I still very strongly suspect that XSLT was a James Clark joke.
> After being told that DSSSL would never take off because it had the
> wrong shape of brackets, is it not the case that he came back with a
> spoof mini-subset of it which had the right brackets, but which was
> received with such rapturous acclaim that he never had the heart to
> confess it was intended as a gag.
>
> No?

No.  I was there.  The decisive breakthrough in the DSSSL->XSLT move
was the realisation that by writing XSLT _in_ XML we could make the
'output' side of templates iconic -- that is, instead of _describing_
the desired result tree fragment, as DSSSL has to do, we could
_manifest_ it.

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