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Clark Evans wrote: > > Things like sorting, re-arranging, table-of-contents > generation, etc. are really large processing instructions > that are more along the line of *what* to process, rather > than *how* the information should be presented. Things like > this could be moved into XQL or some other transformation > language, leaving XSL a more pure "style" oriented > specification. XSL is the dominant transformation language for XML content. As far as standardization goes, XQL doesn't even exist. > Thus XSL wouldn't be *generating* a table of contents, > it would only let you choose if you want to display it, > and if it is displayed, how it is displayed, in green > ink or red, bold or itallic, Aa1i style or 1.1.1.1 > style, etc. You are describing CSS. The Web community decided that we needed XSL because CSS does NOT do sorting, re-arranging, TOC generation, cross referencing, etc. Your "weaker XSL" already exists and is called CSS. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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