• From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@m...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:52:44 -0700

At 03:18 28-06-2001, Simon North wrote:
>Peter Flynn said:
> > When XML browsers eventually implement context-sensitive
> > searching and all the linking goodies, we'll finally be back to where
> > we were in 1994 :-)
>
>Ahhh, if ONLY that were true :-( ... sadly, XMLT(FO) is still a
>looooooooooong way from getting to be even a feeble shadow of
>what DSSSL nearly became.

To be accurate, DSSSL didn't come out until 1996, and it took ten years or 
more.  XSL has only taken four... maybe the next stylesheet language will 
get it right, and only take two. )-:

-Chris
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