Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <41d6ae1a$1@news.povray.org> , Bernd Fuhrmann 
> <Sil### [at] gmxde>  wrote:
> 
> 
>>XML is just a way to give a document (which does include programs
>>aswell) structure that is easy to parse. It does not specify the
>>structure itself. I'd make the structure almost equivalent to POVRay's
>>structure.
> 
> 
> OK, please provide XSLT that transforms a non-trivial X3D XML mesh to a
> POV-Ray mesh.  Just the geometry.  I would love to see the XSLT and its
> complexity ... so show me that I am wrong if you can!

No I won't. Its quite a task to write such a XSLT. I have never worked 
with X3D. It would take me weeks to learn X3D just to proove that it is 
possible.

But if you want to see XSLT in action:

I have attached a little XSLT transformation that transforms data from a 
log file (almost plaintext, written by a simple PHP script), analyzes it 
and displays some statistical information about it. I hope the power of 
XSLT becomes visible. XSLT can also output plain text. So I could even 
render this data with POVRay. That would just be a few lines. Ok it 
would be useless. But at least it's possible. And I wouldn't have to 
write my own parser for it. This saves me a LOT of time. It would be 
cool if I could access POVRay SDL the same way and display automatic 
generated data from it aswell. That is what I try to achieve (among 
other things).

Regards,
Bernd Fuhrmann

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