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I'm writing a chapter on styles - just a brief overview, since the book doesn't deal with generic presentation issues very much - and I've come to something of an impasse. I can't really see where XSL fits usefully into the XML developer's tool kit. I thought it was more capable than CSS, until I read the CSS2 spec in depth and figured it had moved from covering 70% of design needs to something more like 90-95%. I'm finding it very hard to justify using XSL rather than CSS for most of the situations I'm describing. 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. Would anyone care to evangelize XSL to a rather confused and somewhat dispirited XML evangelist? (I wish I had Frank Boumphrey's book now...) Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth (November) Building XML Applications (December) http://www.simonstl.com 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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