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 J.Pietschmann wrote: > The only potentially redundant elements >are fo:list-block and related children (can be emulated with a table). I don't think it's sensible to talk about redundant elements unless of course you have elements that do exactly the same things. Fo:block-container could be considered redundant in a lot of uses, in that you can emulate it via fo:block. Emulation implies to me, ugly hacks, which god knows I am responsible for more than my share. >One issue could be that there is no equivalent of a 'class' attribute, >which indeed causes a lot of repeated sets of attributes on FO >elements. However, it seems this was intentional, you'll find the >equivalent of "class" in XSLT as use-attribute-sets. I wish >xsl:attribute-set and use-attribute-sets had been put in XSLFO >instead of XSLT. I think the basic argument is that there is a particular division of labor that the existence of CSS/XSLT/Markup Language has encouraged. It is a division of labor that we see with Open Ebook, with Html/Xhtml, we can even see it with SVG. We do not see it with XSL-FO, I can not ever consider this as anything but a mistake. Mistakes occur naturally of course, this one seems to me to have been engendered from the original idea of XSLT/XSL-FO = DSSSL, which was probably in hindsight not that great a way to think about the matter. Future of XSL-FO at W3C, I suggest XSL-FO 2 allows CSS styling. 
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