Yves,
At 05:53 AM 3/22/2007, you wrote:
I subsequently picked up your term of "meta-stylesheet" in order to
convey this piece of information I hadn't given in my original
message: The inline styles transformation code I was looking for
will be part of an operating stylesheet that I am generating via
XSLT, hence using a meta-stylesheet - in the "real", conventional
meaning you have taken care to distinguish from the meaning you gave
it in the lines above.
Yes, not a problem. I probably shouldn't have called the solution
offered a "meta-stylesheet" at all since I wasn't using that term in
the way it usually is. The only thing "meta" about David's and my
approach is that it takes a step back from the usual paradigm of
mapping input to output, instead using the input as a configuration
or "driver" for a transformation from an internal input (your styling
specification) to an output.
But as soon as things go "meta" ("after" or "along with"), they can
become confusing. See the meta-thread alongside this one, about recursion.
Recursion or reflexivity comes in for a very interesting treatment in
George Hansen's mind-blowing book, The Trickster and the Paranormal.
The only boundary, it seems, that Hansen leaves out of his discussion
of boundaries and boundary crossing is that between the human and the
machine. Which makes it wildly off topic for this list even if
germane to the discussion. :->
Thank you again for your time and your valuable help!
Sure -- that's what the list is for.
Cheers,
Wendell
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