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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Nature of XML
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:23:14 +0000 (UTC)
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Robert C. Leif <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:
: It depends on what one means as XML.
: XSL,

o.K.

: XSL Fo,

Is there any kind of programming in specifying formatting objects?

: and XForms

o.K., mostly XPath+  predicates.

: have
: methods (subprograms).
: Therefore, I would consider them to be
: rudimentary, specialized programming languages.

XSL is not exactly rudimentary I think. It is an extensible "functional" 
programming language, i.e. only in mode parameters
(with overloading of function names, BTW).

<template match="foo"                            > ...
<template match="foo"            mode="flavoured"> ...
<template match="foo[@tag='T0']"                 > ...
<template match="foo[@tag='T1']"                 > ...
<template match="foo[@tag='T1']" mode="flavoured"> ...
<template name="foo" >
...