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Re: SGML on the Web

• To: mbatsis@h...
• Subject: Re: SGML on the Web
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:51:56 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200210080206.10665.mbatsis@n...>
• References: <E17yS04-0005BC-00@m...> <200210080206.10665.mbatsis@n...>

> I'm on the other side; most transformations to do would have (X)HTML as 
> output. No reason to do that when you have pretty good CSS2 implementations 
> in clients like Moz.

whether the output format is xhtml doesn't affect whether transformation
is needed, that is a property of the input format and in particular how
far the input is from the css rendering model in the browser.

If your input is <ref idref="foo"/> in some document vocabulary and you
want it to appear effectively as xhtml

<a href="#foo">Equation 3</a> in <a href="#sec4">Section 4</a>

then CSS just isn't up to the job (I think). That isn't a criticsm of
CSS, it wasn't intended for that. This is the sort of thing that happens
all the time in stylesheets for document formats though.


David

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