Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > i will not believe this until i have *seen* that eg. the parameter > list rendering for optional arguments comes out easier than it is > in DSSSL ;) > > from my rather limit XSLT experience it is easier to use on simple > problems but can become a complete nightmare on more challanging > tasks while DSSSL is overkill for simple tag replacements but has > the power of a 'real' extensible programming language after all
Both are turing complete, so you can do anything in both of them. XSLT has much more easy to use query language (compare short XPath expressions with quite verbose code in DSSSL). On the other hand, XSLT doesn't hove some types -- e.g. lists which are very useful when impelmenting some task. This will change in XSLT2 as it comes with sequence data-type. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kosek.cz
