Historical trivia: who introduced into XSLT 1.0 the construct that enables XSLT to generate XSLT (i.e., XSLT's "code generation" capability)?
Roger L Costello <[email protected]>
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Hi Folks, The xsl:namespace-alias element is the construct that enables an XSLT program to generate an XSLT program (i.e., it is the thing that gives XSLT its "code generation" capability). Who introduced that construct into the XSLT 1.0 specification? Was it Rick Jelliffe? I believe Rick was the first person to utilize the construct in a major way. He used it in Schematron. But no, it wasn't Rick. So who was it? Scroll down to see the answer ...... Rick told me the answer: "James Clark put the alternative namespace into XSLT 1.0 specifically to allow XSLTs to generate XSLTs; he knew about this from DSSSL or Scheme" /Roger _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php