Re: Historical trivia: who introduced into XSLT 1.0 the construct that enables XSLT to generate XSLT (i.e., XSLT's "code generation" capability)?

For what it is worth, my full sentence was

I should note that James Clark had put the alternative namespace into XSLT1
specifically to allow XSLTs to generate XSLTs, so he knew about this from
DSSSL or Scheme: using XSLT to generate XSLT is a cool or surprising trick,
but in no way is the idea something I thought up!

Regards,
Rick

On Mon, 13 Jun. 2022, 04:34 Roger L Costello, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
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> 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).
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> Who introduced that construct into the XSLT 1.0 specification?
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> Was it Rick Jelliffe?
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> I believe Rick was the first person to utilize the construct in a major
> way. He used it in Schematron.
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> But no, it wasn't Rick.
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> So who was it?
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> Scroll down to see the answer ......
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> Rick told me the answer:
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> "James Clark put the alternative namespace into XSLT 1.0 specifically to
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> /Roger
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