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On 28 Aug 1998 matt@v... wrote: > Paul, you know very well that this is generally an unsolveable > problem. I haven't had a chance to read the latest XSL spec, but > unless the programatic aspects have been considerably reduced, I think > you'll be disappointed at the end of the 3 months - no matter how > brilliant (and Paul is brilliant) you are. Of course, if they have > made those changes, then you might have success in 3 months, but then > XSL will fail for the general formatting problem. The new XSL has no scripting. Extensibility is an item that they still must decide upon -- scripting may reappear. I have been thinking recently that they could leave all programmatic issues to a post proces. Then the line between "behaviour sheets" and "style sheets" would be clear: stylesheets do everything that can be done non-programmatically and behaviour sheets will do the rest. I don't honestly know if this system will be too layered to be easy to use. But perhaps it will be easier to use. Anyhow, if they add scripting back into XSL, then I would, of course, restrict my proof to XSL stylesheets that do not use programmatic features. XSL goes much farther towards making that reasonable than DSSSL did. Paul Prescod xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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