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 Amelia Lewis wrote: > If you care to look at it, it's at: > http://www.mindspring.com/~alicorn/xslv/xslv.html > > This includes some modifications, as well as an alternate vocabulary > based on CSS2, and perhaps a slightly more cogent explanation of how > it's to work. It still isn't fleshed out much, sorry. More later, if > it looks like a remotely reasonable thing to invest time in. Amy, I like your idea. I think there is a need for something simpler than XSL:FO is likely to be. That is not to say that XSL:FO should be discarded. Arguing by analogy, not everyone needs an 18 wheeler to take their shopping home, something a little more modest will meet the needs of many. The majority may have neither the need nor resources to incur the capital and maintenance costs of the "all encompassing" solution - which is what I guess XSL:FO, in a sense, will be. Of the three definitions you suggest for XSLV I would favour the first: "XML Stylesheet Layout Vocabulary". I think your third suggested name could be safely discarded without loss to humankind. :) As I was scanning your revised suggestion the thought popped into my mind, why not just "translate" CSS into an XML-conformant version, maybe called "XCSS", by analogy with the recently announced XHTML Recommendation. And a few lines later I found your link to the "XCSS" namespace. The concept of XCSS is something which I would guess must be (or should be) on the W3C agenda. Does anybody know? Or, could it be that the XSL:FO focus makes "XCSS" - or XSLV - a politically highly sensitive issue? XSL:FO, if approved, will undoubtedly be a powerful solution. But it may well not be a manageable solution for "the little guy". Something like XSLV or XCSS may well have a place, perhaps in certain respects similar to the way SAX has found a place as a practical solution to a practical problem, while not being an official W3C standard. It will be interesting to hear further discussion on your proposal. Andrew Watt *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** 
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