> I've downloaded MSXSL and used it to generate HTML for a couple of document
> types, successfully but with a certain amount of frustration caused by (a)
> lack of diagnostics when I got things wrong, and (b) limited functionality.
>
> I've now implemented the same thing without XSL: I wrote an MSXML
> application in Java that does a recursive walk down the document tree and
> calls a registered "handler" class to process each element type.
Yes, you can implement something XSLish without XSL. The point of XSL is
that it is to be a standard: there will be multiple, interoperable
browser and word processor implementations as well as dedicated XSL
development tools and so forth.
Paul Prescod