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At 08:58 AM 6/16/99 -0700, David Brownell wrote: >Yes, it's true that CSS alone doesn't let you handle what >the HTML "<img src='...'/>" and "<a href='...'>...</a>" elements >do ... or "<table>" (till CSS2 happens) and others. But even >for content that doesn't require those sorts of presentation, >you can see the "dumbing down" effect when you transform the >content from "semantic markup" to "XML that CSS can render". To some extent, you're right, and I've acknowledged that CSS could use some _simple_ transformative mechanisms (plus support from XLink) to accomplish some of these tasks, or you could just use the DOM+Scripting, which I think is a reasonable approach to these kinds of problems. However, I think a fundamental point that both you and Paul are missing here is that even _if_ you have to reorganize your document so that CSS can display it easily, the impact of that 'dumbing down' is much less dramatic than the impact of transformation to formatting objects or XSL. It's a smaller project that creates less dramatic problems. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical (July) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies 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/ 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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