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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > This may be the result of my background in Web development, rather than > SGML, but I can't see what's so intrinsically interesting about using a > transformative rather than a descriptive style language that it rates a > competing spec and has many people (notably Peter Flynn on XML-L a while > back) waiting for XSL rather than working with CSS now. Well, I think XSL should probably be split into two parts (and the current state of the spec suggests that it has been, de facto): the transformation language, which is useful in contexts having nothing to do with styling, and an XML encoding of CSSn, for n >= 2. For example, CSS2 alone cannot take a document with TITLE elements in various divisions and generate a properly numbered and indented TOC at the beginning of the document. XSL, IIRC, can do that by processing the tree twice. OTOH, I see no reason why XSL should specify formatting objects that are other than those of CSS. A standard way to encode the CSS language as XML, so that the transformation language can generate it, would do all that is necessary. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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