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At 12:36 AM 6/19/00 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >Simon St.Laurent writes: > > I can't use a validating XML parser to verify that my XSLT is correct, > > except inasfar as it is well-formed, either. XSLT's design bascially makes > > such verification impossible > >That's very harsh. The RenderX work shows that you can go a long way >with DTDs, and I am sure something like Schematron could provide an >excellent XSLFO validator. I'm not sure that a CSS validator is that much more difficult to build than an XSL validator, however. The W3C has one already, for instance. In either case it takes more than a straight-up validating XML parser. > > CSS isn't 'part of the family' because it was around long before XSL, and > > was basically ahead of the curve as far as convinving HTML developers that > > separating style from content was a good idea. >Shame it didn't have that effect, then :-} I don't know that XSL will have that effect now, either. > > I really dislike being forced to use XSL, but figure that the perpetual > > delays on XSL-FOs might spare me from having to use a grotesquely clunky > > language to solve the kinds of simple work that CSS does very elegantly. > >So, what *do* you use for Amy's Mom and Pop printing work? You have a >CSS implementation that does Word-standard pagination? I don't - but CSS has pagination facilities as well. What exactly does XSL-FO provide that CSS doesn't, again? > > So apart from the fact that CSS isn't XML, it seems to fit your needs. Why > > not do a simple bit of XML-izing? > >Thats exactly what she did, didnt she? and she ended up with what >looks to me like a subset of XSL FO. Which seems to prove to me that >the XSL FO *do* follow the CSS work? I'd like something that would let me use selectors instead of XPath and transformations, please. Thanks! Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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