Re: [xsl] xslt and edi question

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

At 01:21 PM 8/1/01, Jim Fuller wrote:
>and thats because EDI represents ( at least to me ) the antithesis of what
>xml is as a pure file format, though i can use & in EDI without any
>*grumble*<![CDATA[]]> *grumble*................

Interesting that these two facts are related: you can't use '&' freely in 
your XML precisely *because* XML is the antithesis of EDI ... to be more 
specific, XML is a (fairly) highly evolved application of the "markup 
language" paradigm, which insists on a clean separation of markup from 
content. I.e., in XML we always know what our markup delimiters are (and 
they're never spaces, commas or line breaks, which are pervasive in our 
content). (It's arguably an unfortunate historical artifact that one of the 
delimiters is '&' instead of something more obscure. But we need something 
both obscure -- not used for anything else -- and also on our keyboards. 
C'est la vie.)

Oops, back to XSL--
Wendell



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