[XML-SIG] RELAX NG: failed parser attempt

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Andrew Kuchling]

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:57:09PM -0500, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>>...
>
> >I don't have anything concrete to offer at this point since I haven't
> >studied it carefully at all (especially the simplified syntax).  Any hope
> >for a Schematron-like approach (but in Python)?
>
> <blank look> I don't follow the suggestion.  It doesn't look like XSLT
> is strong enough to do the full->simple conversion.
>

I didn't mean it too literally, just wondered whether testing pieces of
syntax against assertions (as is done in Schematron) might let you finesse
some otherwise tricky bits.  I didn't expect it would actually be done in
xslt.

Cheers,

Tom P