Re: XSL/XML/XLL and VRML (was: Re: Conditional actions in XSL?)

W. Eliot Kimber (eliot@isogen.com)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:04:44 -0600


At 09:29 PM 1/28/98 -0600, len bullard wrote:

> Is XSL yet another scripting language?

Yes (except that by allowing you to embed scripts, they sort of break the
purity of the DSSSL/grove model).

A programming language is a programming language. They only differ in what
they are optimized to represent and what particular performance
optimizations they allow. But Turing complete is Turing complete.

DSSSL is a programming language optimized for programming the association
of style with nodes in groves, but it can be used for any programming task,
including driving interactive 3-D viewers, if you want to make it do that
(which you very well might).

Cheers,

E.

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