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Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??

• To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• Subject: Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??
• From: "m batsis" <mbatsis@n...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:46:59 +0300
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• Organization: Netsmart S.A., Greece
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Ken,

G. Ken Holman wrote:

> I cannot subscribe to your conclusion that "FO is far too complex and 
> verbose" ... it is but a hierarchical node tree expression of the 
> semantics to apply to the contained content ... and XML is the best way 
> there is to express hierarchies ... and lengthy multi-property 
> CSS-style-like attribute expressions are not at all hierarchical.

What I had in mind is avoidance of redundancy in presentation 
information, in much the same way htm:div elements with 'class' or 
'style' attributes are used instead of htm:font and htm:center.


>> Just my quarter of a euro.
> 
> I think your debate is far more worthwhile than this, though I don't 
> agree with your conclusions.

Thanks. Well, reading a friendly reply like yours, made me try and find 
arguments against myself. What came out of this is simply that XSL-FO 
presentation info can be transformed via XSLT, something that would be 
almost impossible by using CSS notation for that information...


> I hope this is considered helpful.

It is.

Kindest regards,

Manos

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