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Chris Lilley writes: > > -- the implementation process is fairly straight-forward, and > > there are already several implementations available (none is > > perfect, but that's to be expected when the spec itself is still > > unstable). In this regard, XSL is doing much better than many > > other W3C specs. > > Hmm. > > Talking specifically about the FO part and about announced > implementations, I would characterise them as "fairly incomplete" > rather than "not perfect". And certainly not "much better than most > W3C specs" unless you can quote counterexamples. Actually, I was talking about the XSLT part -- as I mentioned in an earlier part of the post, FO's are hard. I am in a positive where it would not be diplomatic to name names, but go to http://www.w3.org/TR/ and read down the list of REC's, PR's, and WD's, and then count actual implementations for each one (if you want to be really tough, count only implementations not sponsored in some way by the W3C itself). > CSS1 is not brain-dead-simple, from an implementation standpoint, > although you are welcome to whip up a quick 100% compliant > implementation if you wish to prove me wrong. Again, as I mentioned earlier in this message, FO's are hard, even for CSS1. On the other hand, only a tiny handful of browser writers have to deal with that part of the complexity; the real cost of complexity is the cost of training, learning, etc., and CSS1 is brain-dead simple in that respect (it does rely on an understanding of the abstraction of elements, attributes, and data in a tree, but that's a prerequisite for working with XML anyway). All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.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/ 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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