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RE: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing)

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• Subject: RE: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing)
• From: Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 17:05:46 +0100
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At 10:26 01/07/2003 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> > However, the XSLT based approach is more complicated. I could
> > create a template for para, but then that would override
> > *all* of the default styling for paragraphs, which is not
> > what I want. The lack of additive, cascading templates in
> > XSLT means that I would need a detailed knowledge of the
> > structure of the default style sheets in order to customise
> > them effectively, whereas CSS allows me to concentrate on the
> > structure of my documents instead.
>
>Customisable XSLT stylesheets can certainly be written, though it's true
>that they do require careful design and documentation.

http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/

A whole book about it. Very specific to docbook.
Certainly addressed Michael (Day)'s problem.


regards DaveP

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