Hi!
Mark> If I remeber currectly, you can use xsl to transform one XML Mark> into another XML. Since SMI is not in an XML like format, I Mark> don't think it is possible.
XSL can transform to XML, but also to plain text and further optional formats. (<xsl:output method="text|xml|html|..."/>)
Mark> Anyway, what reason is there to retransform an XML to SMI?
I did not try to do such conversations, since we already have smidump. Maybe, XSLT 1.0 is missing some programatic features. I don't know.
However, I agree with awk that it would be `cool' to do this with XSLT. Some people might bring forward the argument that programming and adapting XSL snippets is easier and more flexible than traditional program code. I'm not sure whether I share this argument *completely*, but however I think it's cool to use XSL for prototyping conversions.
-frank