Re: [xml-dev] Creating a Complex System using XSLT. Step 1: CreateFeedback

Roger L. Costello wrote:

> 
> Sorry to be so fuzzy on this.  I confess that am still a novice at complex
> systems.  /Roger
> 

Roger, if you are after "emergent" behavior, why don't you try to 
compute Conway's game of Life using an xslt stylesheet?  The stylesheet 
would play the part of the autonomon, obeying a small selection of 
simple rules.  You would feed the result of each transformation to the 
stylesheet as the new input at each cycle.

If Mike Kay can solve a chess problem and display the board with xslt, 
you ought to be able to compute the game of Life, I would think.

I am not sure if that is what you are interested in, but it could 
produce the kind of emergent behavior (i.e., stable patterns) that Life 
can exhibit.

Cheers,

Tom P