> > Elliotte,
> >
> > I believe that Mike Kay has won this on a TKO, but IMHO it is a tragically
> > pyrrhic victory. If, in fact, the stuff of XSLT is not to be XML but a source
> > tree abstracted by unspecified means, perhaps from XML and perhaps not, then
> > Antaeus has truly cut off his own legs. I won't put words in Len's mouth (!),
> > but surely the grounding of legally acceptable transactions in the precise
> > language of contracts requires at some point coming back to a very specific
> > document at a lexical level, and not to what might be XIncluded as an
> > elaboration of that text.
>
> OK, in the spirit of tit-for-tat classical references; when Dionysius
> unexpectedly transformed Acoetes' crew into beasts, they only had themselves
> to blame. No one made them try to shanghai an innocent, harmless-looking lad
> into slavery.
Actually, it had never occurred to me before, but Ovid should be the patron saint of XSLT, shouldn't he?
I suppose we should make Amos Tutuola his deputy so we don't get tarred and feathered by the Afrocentric School. :-)
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