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XSLT is the language; syntax is not important (Score:1)
First, a detail: XSL:FO is a page description language (think HTML+CSS, but more comprehensive, and with full support for page-based layouts and typography), it's not a transformation language. XSLT is the transformation language; it's supposed to be used to transform semantically-structured XML documents into presentation form (be it text, HTML, XSL:FO, or whatever).
Second, syntax is almost never a problem: XSLT is a nice transformation language in spite of the rather awful syntax. If TGE can get a tree-
Re: (Score:1)
Thanks for the clarifications and explanations! I think I starting to understand TGE and PAST but there is still a long way for me to go.
Plumhead, parser and tree transformation compariso (Score:1)
In my project Plumhead, http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?plumhead [rakudo.org] I'm working on a side by side comparison of various parser and tree transformation approaches. The use case is an implementation of PHP on Parrot.
Currently I have XSLT, TGE and Antlr3 tree transformations. So far Antlr3 is the most convienient for generating the syntax tree as I need it for Parrot.
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