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Re: xslt used for anything wacky?

2003-07-12 02:05:55
Probably you know about the XSL Calculator:

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/xslCalculator/The%20FXSL%20Calculator.html


At the time I wrote "The Functional Programming Language XSLT - A proof
through examples" (Nov. 2001):

http://www.topxml.com/xsl/articles/fp/


I just stopped short of implementing a game -- a general strategy for
playing two-party games is defined in John Hughes' article "Why functional
programming matters":

http://www.md.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html


The reasons for this were the following:

  - that the paper had already become huge.

  - I needed a game with known position-evaluation function.

So, in case one can provide a realistic position-evaluation function for a
game (e.g. chess), then a game-playing xslt application can be developed in
a straigntforward manner.



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




"Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar(_at_)sil(_dot_)org> wrote in message
news:000101c347fb$c6ee5f60$250414ac(_at_)LarsandKate(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)
Someone recently referred jokingly to using XSLT for cooking.

What examples does anyone have (in real life!) of XSLT being used for
unexpected
things?
Anyone written a game in XSLT?
I see there's a chess game rendering web page using XSLT at
http://members.home.nl/cws/ChessMerlinversusGenie.htm

Just curious...
Lars



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