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Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??

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• Subject: Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??
• From: "Anthony B. Coates" <abcoates@T...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:59:34 +0100
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• Reply-to: "Anthony B. Coates" <abcoates@T...>

** Reply to message from AndrewWatt2000@a... on Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:48:57 EDT

> > Why is it easier to generate class="foo" in the XSLT together with
> > some css styling for .foo than to generate that set of attributes
> > directly in the XSLT using an attribute set or variable containing a set
> > of attribute nodes? I don't understand.
> 
> David,
> 
> If a document / page / site is to be re-styled it is much easier, and more 
> efficient, to simply change an external CSS style sheet than to adjust 
> presentation attributes everywhere in a document.

I'm in complete agreement here.  Once I have created the general structure of a
document using FO, I often need to tweak the layout parameters, and it would be
easier if I could do this by editing an external CSS stylesheet, rather than by
having to regenerate the FO.

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect
mailto:abcoates@T...
MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
http://www.mddl.org/

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