Re: [xslt] introduction, xvl.

[Matt Sergeant <matt sergeant org>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> hi there,
>
> i'm an xml novice of about 6 months, experienced programmer,
> and tend to pick the strangest of things as projects, just for
> fun.
>
> i found advogato to be fascinating, and decided to pick it
> up and see how far i could run with it.  that has
> resulted in http://sourceforge.net/projects/virgule, and
> soon-to-be xmlvl.{com,net,org}, as a new mini-scripting
> language, xvl.  the tags / language features of xvl are
> currently described at http://virgule.sourceforge.net.
>
> during my dev-travels, i met daniel veillard a few times.
> i also came across an o'reilly nutshell book describing
> xslt, hey i think i still have it, y'know.
>
> i compared xvl to xslt, and found the principles of xslt
> to be... more programming-based, less xml-based, also
> that it requires two input files not one,

If you want something programming based, "standardised", and using only
one input file, you might want to look into XSP (eXtensible Server Pages)
from the Apache Cocoon project, also implemented in AxKit (now on CVS
using a LibXML based parser).

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