& XSLT I would suggest that this won't give you any meaningful results.  The  
complexity of an XSLT transformation is driven by the  
structural/formatting differences between the input and the output  
formats.  It is not directly related to the complexity of the schemata for  
the input/output formats.

The complexity of an XSLT transformation is also driven by the number of  
ID/IDREF "joins" that are required.  So XTM scores badly on that ground,  
as does XBRL for a similar reason (it uses XLink to impose all  
structure).  However, that doesn't tell you about complexity, it rather  
tells you about which vocabularies are nearer to XSLT's "sweet spot", and  
which are not.

	Cheers,
		Tony.

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:56:02 +0100, Lars Marius Garshol  
<larsga@[...].no>  wrote:

>  I'm writing a paper where I'm evaluating different XML vocabularies
>  for expressing the same information, and one of my evaluation criteria
>  is how easily the resulting XML can be processed with XSLT. At the
>  moment the paper contains only prose with a subjective appraisal of
>  the various approaches. This is fine, as far as it goes, but it would
>  be nice to have something more objective to back it up with. Are there
>  any established criteria for evaluating the complexity of XSLT
>  stylesheets?

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