A weaker XSL?

[Paul Prescod]

Peter Seibel wrote:
> 
> At 05:17 AM 2/4/99 , Michael.Kay at icl.com wrote:
> >> Is there a possibility for creating a sub-set of
> >> XSL that would work on a stream instead of
> >> requiring a complete document object?
> >
> >Funny you should ask that, I've been experimenting over the last few days to
> >see whether I could build such a thing on top of SAXON. Not actually easy to
> >do as a pure subset, but I think one can do something that feels quite
> >XSL-like.
> 
> So I obviously lack imagination or understanding of all the intricacies of
> XSL -- what can you express in XSL that you couldn't implement on top of SAX?

How do I build a table of contents that is output BEFORE the document
without reading the whole input before I start to output?

-- 
 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
 http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did,
but she did it backwards and in high heels."
                                               --Faith Whittlesey

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)