Let me qualify what I said below... > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > c'mon, Peter. I'm not meaning to insult everyone, but to solve an issue > > I'm having about the fact that I want a template engine that is SAX > > based and works with some velocity-like syntax and XSLT fits the need > > perfectly if it wasn't for the stynax. > > It sounds like you want STX more than XSLT. Using STX you would not even > be > able to do the funky stuff you can in XSLT (you can't even glance back > over > your shoulder). It's young and (?)impressionable(/?). You should look more > into sinking your teeth into it. It would probably be less work to create > what you want.
You can 'look back over you shoulder' to your ancestor stack - any start element that has not reached it's end element in the current nodes ancestry. But you can't go outside of that. > > Best, > -Rob