Re: [xml-dev] The remarkable similarities between XSLT and Flex/Lex

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

Thank you Tony.

regards

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 13:39, Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp> wrote:
>
> On 24/06/2022 12:00, Dave Pawson wrote:
> ...
> > You surprise me Michael. I thought James was a single author behind
> > both of those (at least 1.0).
>
>  From http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/norway/history.html [1], the DSSSL
> committee started in 1988 and there was a Draft International Standard
> in 1991 before James Clark joined in 1992.
>
> My understanding is that DSSSL changed a whole lot between the first DIS
> and DSSSL as we know/knew it, but there was definitely people, not just
> person, involved.  As there would have been for XSLT.  XPath 1.0 [2] was
> the joint work of the XSL and XLink WGs and has two editors: James Clark
> and Steve DeRose.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tony Graham.
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> XML Division
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>
> [1] From http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/norway/dsssl.html,
>      from http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116
>
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