Working Draft

Date: May. 11, 1998
Link: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-XSLReq
Source Author or Organization: W3C

Excerpted from "Status of this Document" section: "This document gives a list of requirements we consider to be in scope for XSL in general with no reference to timing or target version. This document makes no statement about what specific requirements will be addressed in any particular Working Draft or version of XSL.

"In accordance with good language design practice, the full set of requirements are presented so that, at every step in the design process, design choices are made taking the full set of requirements into account, rather than just a subset of those requirements currently being met. It is the XSL WG's expectation that initial drafts/versions of XSL will address only a subset of these requirements."

"When reviewing these requirements, keep in mind that XSL is required to perform equally well in batch and interactive environments. These environments run from purely batch formatting at one end of the spectrum, through interactive browser environments, up to structured editors where XSL is used to guide the online presentation of an XML instance while it is being modified."